English

Verb

builded

1. (archaic or nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of build
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), 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?

   • 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; / […]

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

     Down ruins the ancient order

     And empire builded of old.

   • 1993, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, 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[.]

   • 2003, Rhiannon, aged 14, quoted in Ian Butler et al, Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of Their Parents' Divorce, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, ISBN 1-84310-103-3, page 52,

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