单词 | milder |
释义 | milderv. Now rare (chiefly English regional). intransitive. To moulder, to decay; to crumble away. Also figurative. Occasionally transitive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become mouldy or musty vinnyOE moul?c1225 mould1530 foisty1572 hoar1573 milder1592 musty1631 to grow whiskers1977 1592 [see mildered adj. at Derivatives]. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 353 Their estates crumble and milder away. 1646 H. More Cupid's Conflict 3 Unthankfull wretch! Gods gifts thus to reject And maken nought of Natures goodly dower That milders still away through thy neglect. 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Moulder, agro Linc. Milder. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) It's clean mildered away. The frost lays hold on it and it milders down. 1989 L. O'Toole Goin' to Town with Katie Ann in Canad. Fiction Mag. 66 177 Ya must of been mildered waitin' fer me. DerivativesΚΠ 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 6 And in the myldered places of broken walles grew Howslike, and the hanging Cymbalaria. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. at Milder The stone-work is so mildered. ΚΠ 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ix. 20 This practise is most approuable and peculiar in mildring Clay, which otherwise by shooting and melting downe into open Trenches, would choake vp the water-passages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1592 |
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