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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete strong past participles of fold.
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Examples
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I've always been awazed at the homor that gets folde into the most dramatic of scenes.
Scottish play 2005
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The frutefulnesse of the soile is excedyng, and to muche merueillous: as in some places bringyng the siede with a hundred folde encrease.
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The Golden Vale in Herefordshire, (being ye pride of al that country,) being the richest yet (for want of employment) the plentifullest place of poore in the kingdom -- yielding two or three hundred folde; the number so increasing (idleness having gotten the upper hand;) if trades bee not raised -- beggery will carry such reputation in my quarter of the country, as if it had the whole to halves.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 Various
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Crispinus goes on telling Horace that none are safe from such calumnies; but that, if his 'dastard wit' will 'strike at men in corners,' if he will 'in riddles folde the vices' of his best friends, then he must expect also that they will 'take off all gilding from their pilles,' and offer him 'the bitter coare' (core).
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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And for English-gentlemen me thinks it must needs be a pleasure to them, to see so rich a toong out-vide by their mother-speech, as by the manie-folde Englishes or manie wordes in this is manifest?
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Wherfore we, wretched and miserable synners, render unto thee most humble and hartie thankes, that yt hath pleased thee to call us home to thy folde by thy Fatherly correction at this present, wheras in our prosperitie and libertie we dyd neglect thy graces offered unto us.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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It will just make a folder named windows old in the same drive, where all the files from the windows folde of vista will automatically go.
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And in Winter (as by signes they haue declared) they weare foure or fiue folde vpon their bodies with the haire (for warmth) turned inward.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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They entred into townes, burroughes, and villages, sparinge neither children nor olde men, neyther women with childe, neither them that laye in; but they ripped their bellies and cutt them in peces, as if they had bene openinge of lambes shutt upp in their folde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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It is a graine of maruellous great increase: of a thousand, fifteene hundred, and some two thousand folde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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