time-riddenadj.
/ˈtʌɪmˌrɪdn/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmˌrɪd(ə)n/ 1. Afflicted by the effects of time; time-worn.
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1819 Kilmarnock Mirror June 12 On this side, one overflowing with love, whispers the old, time-ridden watch-word, ‘take care’.
1848 H. S. Sutton Poems 70 The huge head, sore battered & time-ridden, Of sphynx.
1889 G. B. Fitzgerald Clare Strong I. xiii. 200 A ridiculous landau..under the guidance of an ancient and time-ridden Jehu.
1954 Daily Sitka (Alaska) Sentinel 27 Aug. 2/1 There is a time ridden canard that no comedian can happily enter the actor's Valhalla..unless he has..wowed them in Winsock.
2005 Sunday Independent (Nexis) 10 Apr. The old and the young reach across the time-ridden, careworn lives of the middle-aged in a complicity of love without friction.
2. Subject to the constraints or limitations of (finite) time (cf. time n. 33), as opposed to eternity.
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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > relating to period of activity of limited duration
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sessional1973
1851 C. Kingsley Yeast xvii. 361 Those universal and eternal truths, which are too great for the grasp of any one time-ridden individual.
1921 P. Bottome Crystal Heart 23 Far away below her in the time-ridden world she heard a clock strike eight.
1936 T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton in Coll. Poems 188 A flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces.
1944 Sewanee Rev. 52 99 Its history is beyond time, outside time, and for this very reason bewilders our time-ridden minds.
2001 F. Ricci Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures i. 48 To speak of his tales is to retell not so much an adventure or time-ridden action but instead to relate atemporal experiences, moods, states of being.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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