dolven

dolven

English

Verb

dolven

1. (obsolete) past participle of delve
   • 1534, Erasmus, chapter I, in Leonard Cox, transl., The paraphraſe of Eraſm[us] Roterdame vpon [the] epiſtle of ſai[n]t Paule vnto his diſcyple Titus […] ‎, London: Iohan Bydell:

     And my cōmyſſyon is not to call them to faith onely / but also to ye knowleg of trueth which among the gentyles was ouerheaped & doluen in the imagynacyons […]

   • 1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XI, in Phillip Sidney Knight; Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewneſſe of Chriſtian Religion […] ‎, London: Robert Robinſon, page 159:

     But yet if thou wouldſt conſider how often men go to ſeeke Death where it ſeemeth to be doluen moſt deepe […]

   • 1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “IV: A Journey in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:

     […] and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages.

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• Rhymes: -ɔlvən

Verb

dolven

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of delven

Anagrams

• lovend, vloden

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Middle English

Verb

dolven

1. past participle of delven
   • c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 82, recto, lines 5280-5281; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, OCLC 150454844, page 167:

     ac he was ded ⁊ doluen · as dere god wold / ⁊ alphouns held in his hond · holli al þe reaume […]

     But he was dead and buried, as dear God wanted, and now Alfonso had the entire realm firmly under his control […]

   • c. 1360, John Mandeville (accredited), The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

     for he smote so strongly and so hard himself in that rock, that all his body was dolven within through the miracle of God.

   • 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess

     I had be dolven everydel, And ded, ryght thurgh defaute of slep.'

   • 1483, William Caxton, The Golden Legend

     And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory .