kneaden

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/ˈnɛdən//ˈniːdən/

A form of knead — To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

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Meanings

verb
  1. archaicparticiplepastpast participle of knead

    if it be kneden with wyne and layde to, it healeth the bytinges of vipers, dogges and menne.

    1551, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of Sea Holly”, in A New Herball, […], London: […] Steven Mierdman, and they are to be soolde […] by John Gybken, →OCLC, folio 87, recto
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    How one? not as a drop of water uniting with the Ocean, becomes ſubſtantially one with it, nor as divers corns ground and kneaden, and baked, becomes one loaf[…]

    1677, J[ohn] Cheyney, Quakeriſm Proved to be Groſs Blaſphemy and Antichriſtian Hereſie, London: Richard Butler, page 16

    This bird, with its carol clear, / When the red clay was kneaden, / And God made Adam our father dear, / Sang to him thus in Eden.

    1863, Jean Ingelow, “A Cottage in a Chine”, in Poems, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, page 174

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

akenned
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “kneaden,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kneaden.

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