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told, ppl. a. rare.|təʊld|
[pa. pple. of tell v.]
Related, narrated, recounted; counted, reckoned; † esteemed: see the verb. Chiefly in Comb., as oft-told (oft A. c), twice-told, etc. † by told tales, as is said, as they say (cf. by all accounts).
c1310in Böddeker Altengl. Dicht. 292 Ȝef þou art riche & wel ytold, Ne be þou noht þarefore to bold. a1425Cursor M. 18713 (Trin.) Alle þat wolde leue [= believe] þat tolde And bapteme receyue wolde. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 22 All is not golde that glisters by tolde tales. 1882W. B. Weeden Soc. Law Labor 94 Capital is told wealth.
b. told out, counted out; hence, played out, spun out, exhausted (colloq.).
1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mrkt. Harb. xi. (1862) 89 He could not disguise from himself that the roan was about ‘told out’. |