Definition of "elden"

elden¹

verb
third-person singular simple present eldens, present participle eldening, simple past and past participle eldened
1. (archaic, intransitive) To advance in eld or old age; to grow older; to age.
  Quotations
  Margery looked up at him, colouring, startled, suspicious. "Truth, Lady, you've no call to look at me thus," Hugh said, smiling. "I'm eldening now, like my late master, God cherish him, but I'm not so old I can't remember what it is to burn, […]
  1955, Barbara Jefferis, Beloved Lady, page 49

elden²

adjective
not comparable
1. Rare form of olden.
  Quotations
  In the orient, elden age, / Ere man had learned to wage / Dispassionate war against his natural mind, / Thy voice of mystery— / Reading aloud the earth’s extended page, / Bade human aspirations find, / In the cool fountain and the forest tree, / A sentient Deity; […]
  1852 June, E[dmund] C[larence] S[tedman], “Ode to Pastoral Romance”, in The Yale Literary Magazine: […], volume XVII, number VII, New Haven, Conn.: […] A. H. Maltby. […] T. J. Stafford, stanza V, page 260
  And when, adown life’s current floating slow, / Earth’s mated hearts with happy cooings go, / It may be scarce begun the joyful voyage, / Which hope has drawn out unto elden age, / Ere the sad mandate is received, to cast / Aside the aspirings fostered of the past; […]
  1882, Robert Whittet, “Suffering in the Individual Life of Man”, in The Brighter Side of Suffering, and Other Poems, Richmond, Va.: Whittet & Shepperson; West, Johnston, & Co.; and J. W. Randolph & English, page 86
  And some miles ahead, at the heart of the Riverwood and upon the banks of the Islebome, stood the ruins of Luren, once a great trade city, but destroyed in elden times: […]
  1984, Dennis L[ester] McKiernan, “The Gathering”, in The Darkest Day (The Iron Tower; 3), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, published 1985, page 53