laden

«laden» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: loaded — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

loaded

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Carrying a heavy load; full of something. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "laden" is still used but is less common, and the sentences use the same sense as today. The form is an old participle of "lade", where we would now say "loaded".

examples

• And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. (Torah GEN.45.23, JPS 1917) tree →
• TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along. (Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend) tree →
• And the villagers watched her return laden, and said to each other: (The Orange Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

laden

tests

manual 6; corpora 71 (Torah 2, tales 69, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 18; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.1); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;
• A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him.

Trees and pragmatics

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