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new-mould, v.
[new adv. 6.]
trans. To mould or form anew.
1650Baxter Saints' R. iii. v. §4 It changeth his opinion,..but it never melted and new molded his heart. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. (1723) 105 Its prime Errand was to Re-form and New-mold the Earth. 1738Wesley Hymn, ‘When shall thy lovely Face’ viii, Jesus..New-moulds our Limbs of cumb'rous Clay. 1784R. Bage Barham Downs II. 286 This affliction may in some measure new mould her. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. i. 37 The more wily courtiers..deemed it less obnoxious to violate than to new-mould the constitution. |