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English
Verb
builded
- (archaic or poetic, otherwise nonstandard) Alternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 4:17:And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 407:Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.]
- 1909, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, Chapter I: Africa and America, page 18,
- “So there was builded into America the thrift of the searchers of wealth, the freedom of the Renaissance and the stern morality of the Reformation.”
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XXI, New Year’s Eve, lines 35–36
- Down ruins the ancient order
- And empire builded of old.
- 2003, Rhiannon, aged 14, quoted in Ian Butler et al, Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 52
- I think it just sort of gradually ‘builded’ up.