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an age, one of the six ages of the world
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  • Yldo

    evo (primo, )

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 80.

  • Þes middangeard néde on ðás eldo endian sceal þe nú andweard is; for þon fífe þára syndon ágangen on þisse eldo,

      Bl. H. 117, 35.
age, time of life
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  • Hát baðo ǽlcere yldo and háde gescrǽpe (

    omni aetati et senui accommodos

    ),
      Bd. l, 1; Sch. 9, II a. of a thing :-- On
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old age
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  • Hí (

    Adam and Eve

    ) ne mihton forealdian, ne deáde beón . . . Ðá underðeóddon hí selfe . . . tó eldo and tó deáðe,
      Shrn. 66, 20. III a.
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  • Yeldo grues (l. caries; the line glossed is: Quae quassat

    caries,

    et frangit fessa vetustas,
      Ald. 153, 28), Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 22.

  • Eldo cnues (l. caries, and cf. caries, putredo lignorum vel ferri sindor

    vel vetustas,

      129, 10), 19, 35.
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v. cild-ildu, for-ildu, or-ildu.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ildu.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/53853.

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