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moulder

verb
/ˈməʊldə/UK/ˈmoʊldəɹ/US

Etymology

Partly from the following: * From Middle English molder, moldere (“maker of bread, baker”), from molden (“to knead or shape (bread); to make bread, bake; to mix (something) by kneading; to shape, mould; to pulverize (?)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, especially names of people engaged in professions or trades). Molden is derived from mold, molde (“model or pattern according to which a thing is made, mould”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs); and mold, molde are borrowed from Old French molde, a variant of modle, molle (modern French moule), from Latin modulus (“small interval or measure; etc.”), diminutive of modus (“measure; manner, method”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”). * From mould (“to shape in or on a mould; to form into a particular shape”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

  1. inherited from *melh₂-✻ — “to crush, grind”
  2. inherited from *muldō✻ — “dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”
  3. inherited from molde — “earth, soil”
  4. inherited from mold

Definitions

  1. Often followed by away or down

    Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.

    • [S]harp and corroding rheums had so early mouldered those rocks and hardest parts of his fabric [teeth], that a man might well conceive that his years were never like to double or twice tell over his teeth.

  2. To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.

    • How many men have we seen moulder and crumble away great estates, and yet pay no debts?

  3. Often followed by away

    Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.

    • To them [the Muses] Great WILLIAM's Glory to recal / VVhen Statues moulder, and vvhen Arches fall.
    • [H]is [Time's] gradual touch / Has moulder'd into beauty many a tovver, / VVhich, vvhen it frovvn'd vvith all its battlements, / VVas only terrible: […]
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. To die away, to disappear.

      • As to thoſe offerd condeſcenſions of Charitable connivence, or toleration, if vve conſider vvhat vvent before, and vvhat follovvs, they moulder into nothing.
      • [A]ll idea of serious opposition to the house of Hanover had long mouldered away; […]

    2. A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.

    3. A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks,…

      A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.

    4. An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.

    5. A person or thing that influences or shapes

      A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.

    6. A person who makes moulds for casting metal

      A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.

    7. Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake

      Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).

    8. Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”)

      Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.

      • [B]y the ſenſe of our ayrie bodies we haue a more refined faculty of forſeeing, than men poſſibly can haue, that are chained to ſuch heauie earthlie moulder; […]

    9. Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny…

      Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)

    10. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA