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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gild .
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Examples
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At a certain stage new forces of production were set in motion by the bourgeoisie, following upon the division of labor and the union of many different kinds of labor in one united manufacture, and the methods of exchange and requirements of exchange developed by their means, were incompatible with the existing historical surviving methods of production consecrated by the law, that is to say the gilds and the innumerable personal and other privileges (which for the unprivileged were only so many fetters) of the feudal social organization.
Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy Friedrich Engels 1857
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In well-nigh every town one or more of these "gilds" were established, delighting the people with their quaint pageantry and elaborate ritual, and forming centres of light and culture throughout the land.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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What holds us in one piece is, paradoxically, a split in our corneas-a split that "gilds" us together like something precious, permitting our singular views from our temporary windows., by Sandra Beasley.
PoetryFoundation.org 2010
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As Father Gasquet says in his _Parish Life in Medieval England_, of the universality of these "gilds" in this country: "Every account of a medieval parish must necessarily include some description of the work of fraternities and guilds ....
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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It is not always just nostalgia that gilds the past.
Football's modern-day delinquents make me pine for George Best | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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Sunlight streaming through the high windows gilds the oak paneling.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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The ancient walls of Gigondas (Vaucluse) where genêt gilds the countryside. faner (fa-nay) verb
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Sunlight streaming through the high windows gilds the oak paneling.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Shadows extend towards sunlit water chopped with yellow and blue reflections as the lowering sun gilds the west-facing tree canopy and burnishes the masses of haws on banks of bracken.
Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010
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That success gilds the bank's mystique, allowing it to attract the top talent and make even more money.
Myth-breaker charts the tarnishing of the Goldman image 2011
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