Crossword clues for dwelled
dwelled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dwell \Dwell\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dwelled, usually contracted into Dwelt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dwelling.] [OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dv["a]ljas to dwell, Dan. dv[ae]le to linger, and to E. dull. See Dull, and cf. Dwale.]
To delay; to linger. [Obs.]
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To abide; to remain; to continue.
I 'll rather dwell in my necessity.
--Shak.Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.
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To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.
The parish in which I was born, dwell, and have possessions.
--Peacham.The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides.
--C. J. Smith.To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. ``My hopes in heaven to dwell.''
--Shak.To dwell on or To dwell upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of; as, to dwell upon a subject; a singer dwells on a note.
They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement.
--Buckminster.Syn: To inhabit; live; abide; sojourn; reside; continue; stay; rest.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (en-simple past of: dwell) 2 (past participle of dwell English)
Usage examples of "dwelled".
And for to repose him he went to a good knight that dwelled in Cornwall, in a castle, whose name was Sir Dinas le Seneschal.
And so this squire was benighted, and by misfortune he happened to come to a castle where dwelled a baron.
Sir, said she, I dwelled with the greatest man of the world, and he made me so fair and clear that there was none like me.
I am of your kindred, the which hath dwelled in this heat this three hundred winter and four-and-fifty to be purged of the sin that I did against Joseph of Aramathie.
Then said Bors: It is mo than a year and an half that I ne lay ten times where men dwelled, but in wild forests and in mountains, but God was ever my comfort.
Thus leave I here Sir Bedivere with the hermit, that dwelled that time in a chapel beside Glastonbury, and there was his hermitage.
But he was safe from the torments of others because he dwelled in Vladsmanse, the house of his younger brother, who valued Mendula's sound advice in all manner of things.
But he was also thrall-in-chief to Karl the Crag, and dwelled in Cragspire.
Together with Lardis, these men had been legendary fighters in the days when the Wamphyri came a-hunting on Sunside and the Szgany dwelled in terror.
And the more Nathan dwelled upon it the more he saw his obligation unwinding before him, much like the black canyon walls of the serpentine river .
We dwelled too close together and crossed each other's paths too often.
We've dwelled so close, so long, and yet apart from the occasional trading contact, we're strangers!
There the Wamphyri dwelled in a mighty gorge, whose name Nathan had learned from the Thyre: Turgosheim.
Relatives of these creatures dwelled on Sunside, too, in deep caverns from which they emerged at dusk to fashion their webs and trap moths.
Other areas were likewise blank, especially with regard to the Szgany in their settled period, and the communities in which they'd dwelled prior to the return of the Wamphyri.