havoced

havoced

English

Verb

havoced

1. simple past tense and past participle of havoc
   • 1643, “Battlefields of Warwickshire”, in John Fetherston, editor, The Warwickshire Antiquarian Magazine‎, volume 5, page 291:

     […] [T]hey hacked, havoced, or pistolled all they met with, without distinction, blaspheming, cursing and damning themselves most hideously

   • 1991, Derek Jarman, Keith Collins, editor, Smiling in Slow Motion‎^"havoced", Century, published 2000, →ISBN, page 20:

     There are more prominent people than the gaggle of thespians who claim to represent us – the first to be targeted should be the politicians, particularly lawyers, judges and police, and then the churchmen who have havoced young lives.

   • 2005, Larry Corse, “Writing Poetry”, in Nominative Gestures: Pigeons and Centers: Poems from a Month Abroad‎, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 55:

     The fecund mountains have havoced my head, / Clarity is bemused by allergies this morning.

Usage notes

• The spelling havocked is more common.