The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
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Eld
/ɛld/
Synonyms for "eld" (39 found)
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10 entriesadjectiveadultdescriptorhuman beinglanguage featurelife stagelinguistic registerpersonquality adjectivetime of life
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11 entrieseld ageeld kingeld loreeld maneld oakseld wisdomelderly personman of eldold agesenior yearswoman of eld
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8 total sentences available.
Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld.
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Dotard, (ſaide he) let be thy deepe aduiſe; Seemes that through many yeares thy wits thee faile, And that weake eld hath left thee nothing wiſe, Els neuer ſhould thy iudgement be ſo frayle, To meaſure manhood by the ſword or mayle.
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Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?
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