molten

«molten» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: melted, cast in metal — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

melted, cast in metal

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Made by pouring melted metal into a mould, so it is a solid thing shaped by heat; here it means a metal idol or gold that is melted and cast. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means melted by great heat, as in molten lava; in the Torah "molten gods" are idols cast from metal, which is a sense today's readers would not expect.

examples

• Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. (Torah EXO.34.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• “Why tears, beloved one?” cried the gnome anxiously; “every tear of yours falls upon my heart like a drop of molten gold. (The Brown Fairy Book) tree →
• Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.19.4, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

molten

tests

manual 6; corpora 16 (Torah 8, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 6.2); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
• Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
• Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
• Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
• They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.

Trees and pragmatics

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