Defn: One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor
Trajan.
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Eld, a. Etym: [AS. eald.]
Defn: Old. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Eld, n. Etym: [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald, old. See
Old.]
1. Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic] As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer. Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.
2. Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.
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Eld, v. i.
Defn: To age; to grow old. [Obs.]
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Eld, v. t.
Defn: To make old or ancient. [Obs.]
Time, that eldeth all things. Rom. of R.