Meanings
- alternativearchaicnonstandardpoeticAlternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build
And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?
1804, William Blake, And did those feet in ancient time5 more examples
Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd. / No it was buylded far from accident,
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 124”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, lines 4–5And 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.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:17Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 9:1Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.]
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[…] / They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; / […]
1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10
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