| 释义 |
mouldered, ppl. a.|ˈməʊldəd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Turned to dust; crumbled; decayed.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 15 All the misers-Mammons mouldred-pelfe. 1728P. Walker Life Peden Pref. (1827) 27 That the Souls of our Worthies were come from Heaven, and the Dust of their mullered Bodies from their Graves. 1794Coleridge Melancholy 1. Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall. 1807Wordsw. White Doe vii. 79 A mouldered tree, A self-surviving leafless oak. 1855Browning How it Strikes a Contemp. 19 Some house Intact yet with its mouldered Moorish work. 1857Miller Elem. Chem. (1862) III. 122 Mouldered wood from the trunk of a decaying tree. |