expired

«expired» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: died — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

died

part of speech

verb, past tense of expire

meaning for a pupil

dead; passed away. tree →

how it differs from today

Today 'expire' is mostly used for tickets or permits running out, or as a polite word for dying; here it means died, and the third sentence uses today's sense of running out.

examples

• And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. (Torah GEN.25.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• Then she returned home, bought a coffin, lay down in it, and straightway expired. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

primary record

expired

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 24 (Torah 4, tales 19, Sefer Yetzirah 1); EWT 4; ratio 0.3 (Torah alone 1.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the days were not expired;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «expired» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.