gilden

comparative more gilden · superlative most gilden

1. obsoleteGolden; made of gold.

   In summer's day, when Phœbus fairly shone / I saw a Bull as white as driven snow / With gilden horns embowéd like the moon / In a fresh flow'ring meadow lying low

   1590, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanity

present singular third person gildens · participle present gildening · participle past gildened · past gildened

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become golden or gilded

   Cover of Gospel book with relic of Holy Cross made of Silver, gildened with enamel rosettas.

   1969, John Rekem, Zobor, the mount and the monastery, page 51

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   A little of his pleasure was in the anticipation of seeing Southern Italy in bloom, now that spring is there. But George had a cold. He went to the Moses Taylor hospital. Next week when the great ship docks in Southern Italy, perhaps the sun will be gildening, there will be color and laughter at the dock, for the Italians are a happy race; but George will not be there.

   1936, International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers' Journal, page 70

   You were mine: In your early morning's gildening ray I first became aware of bliss and pain, - Pure like a pearl.

   1992, Stella M. Hryniuk, Twenty Years of Multiculturalism: Successes and Failures, page 137