Eld

/ɛld/ · noun

Meaning

(rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
2. (archaic or poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
3. (archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
4. (archaic or poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
5. (obsolete) Old.
6. (intransitive, archaic, poetic or dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
7. (intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
8. (transitive, archaic or poetic) To make old, age.

Example Sentences

The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.

Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld.

Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe; Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile, And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe, Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle, To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.

Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?

As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress Of life's disastrous eld, on blossoming youth May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth […]

The withered limbs of eld, the thin, gray hair […]

the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.

Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld, when the damosel fled with her lover.

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Word Forms

• elth
• eild
• eeld
• ild
• yeeld
• elder
• eldest
• elds
• elding
• elded

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