waxed

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

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

grew; became

part of speech

verb, past tense of wax

meaning for a pupil

To grow or become more of something, such as "waxed great" meaning "grew great". tree →

how it differs from today

Today "wax" means a candle material or the growing moon; "waxed" meaning "grew" or "became" is no longer used.

examples

• And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great. (Torah GEN.26.13, JPS 1917) tree →
• The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. (Torah EXO.1.20, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 6; corpora 25 (Torah 11, tales 14, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 25.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
• And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
• And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted.
• And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
• Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

Trees and pragmatics

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