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builded en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, nonstandard, poetic) Alternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build
    alt of built
    • Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.] 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 407:
    • […] / They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; / […] 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10:
    • “Our forebears builded better than they knew.” 1923, Dan McKenzie, Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, p. 6:
    • And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? 1804, William Blake, And did those feet in ancient time:
    • 1909, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, Chapter I: Africa and America, page 18, “So there was builded into America the thrift of the searchers of wealth, the freedom of the Renaissance and the stern morality of the Reformation.”
    • I think it just sort of gradually ‘builded’ up. 2003, Rhiannon, aged 14, quoted in Ian Butler et al, Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 52
    • Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd. / No it was buylded far from accident, 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 124”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, lines 4–5:
    • Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:1:
    • Down ruins the ancient order And empire builded of old. 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XXI, New Year’s Eve, lines 35–36
    • And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:17:

Deriveds

unbuilded