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Definition of 'eld'English
Alternative forms
*
* (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)
Noun
( en-noun)
(rare|or|dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
* 1868 , John Eadie, A Biblical cyclopædia :
- The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
* 1913 , Paulist Fathers, Catholic world :
- Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld .
(archaic|or|poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
* 1912', Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, ''Rhymes of '''eld :
- The withered limbs of eld , the thin, gray hair [...]
* 1912 , Arthur S. Way, translating Euripides, Medea , Heinemann 1946, p. 329:
- the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.
* 1904 , , The Sun's Shame , II, lines 1-3
- ''As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
- ''Of life's disastrous eld , on blossoming youth
- ''May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth, -
(archaic|or|poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
(archaic|or|poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 38:
- Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld , when the damosel fled with her lover.
Adjective
(er)
(obsolete) Old.
Related terms
* (l)
Verb
( en-verb)
(intransitive|archaic|poetic|or|dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
(intransitive|archaic|or|poetic) To delay; linger.
(transitive|archaic|or|poetic) To make old, age.
References
* 1906, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "eld".
Anagrams
* (l), (l)
* (l)
* (l), (l)
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