kneaden

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɛdən/, /ˈniːdən/

Verb[edit]

kneaden

  1. (archaic) past participle of knead
    • 1551, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of Sea Holly”, in A New Herball, [], London: [] Steven Mierdman, and they are to be soolde [] by John Gybken, →OCLC, folio 87, recto:
      if it be kneden with wyne and layde to, it healeth the bytinges of vipers, dogges and menne.
    • 1677, J[ohn] Cheyney, Quakeriſm Proved to be Groſs Blaſphemy and Antichriſtian Hereſie[1], London: Richard Butler, page 16:
      How one? not as a drop of water uniting with the Ocean, becomes ſubſtantially one with it, nor as divers corns ground and kneaden, and baked, becomes one loaf []
    • 1863, Jean Ingelow, “A Cottage in a Chine”, in Poems[2], London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, page 174:
      This bird, with its carol clear, / When the red clay was kneaden, / And God made Adam our father dear, / Sang to him thus in Eden.