moulderedmolderedadj.

1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) vi. sig. Sii Do not the gorgeouse hanginges hide the dusty moudred wall.

?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 133 Hee yesterday renowmed Prince..To daye in mouldred mossie mire, layde in his fatall graue.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 15 All the misers-Mammons mouldred-pelfe.

1651 Marcus Tullius Cicero v. sig. C4/1 That head, those hands, are both divorc't, & sever'd From his now moldred carkasse.

1728 P. Walker Life A. Peden (1827) Pref. 27 That the Souls of our Worthies were come from Heaven, and the Dust of their mullered Bodies from their Graves.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Melancholy 1 Stretch'd on a moulder'd Abbey's broadest wall.

1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 115 A mouldered tree, A self-surviving leafless Oak.

1855 R. Browning How it Strikes Contemp. 19 Some house Intact yet with its mouldered Moorish work.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 122 Mouldered wood from the trunk of a decaying tree.

1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. v. vii. 199 The mouldered remains inside the Barrow.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes vi. 69 In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton, every vestige of flesh gone from the bones to which still clung the mildewed and mouldered remnants of what had once been clothing.

1986 D. Hogan New Shirt ii. 111 There was a mouldered wreck of a trawler on the edge of the sand.