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# waxed

verb, past tense of wax

«waxed» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

To grow or become more of something, such as "waxed great" meaning "grew great". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#m1)

### Then and now

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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#x1)
- The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#x2)
- And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. (Torah EXO.1.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/#x3)

### Note

Today: grew; became.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «waxed» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/waxed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«waxed» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/waxed.html) on Mova free.