builded

English

Verb

builded

1. (archaic or poetic, otherwise nonstandard) Alternative form of built; simple past and past participle of build
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:17:

     And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

   • 1804, William Blake, And did those feet in ancient time:

     And was Jerusalem builded here,
     Among these dark Satanic Mills?

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 407:

     Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.]

   • 1862 February, Julia Ward Howe, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume IX, number LII, page 10:

     […] / They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; / […]

   • 1909, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, Chapter I: Africa and America, page 18,

     “So there was builded into America the thrift of the searchers of wealth, the freedom of the Renaissance and the stern morality of the Reformation.”

   • 1923, Dan McKenzie, Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, p. 6:

     “Our forebears builded better than they knew.”

   • 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, XXI, New Year’s Eve, lines 35–36

     Down ruins the ancient order

     And empire builded of old.

   • 2003, Rhiannon, aged 14, quoted in Ian Butler et al, Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 52

     I think it just sort of gradually ‘builded’ up.