Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English past participle of delve.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle obsolete of delve.

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  • verb obsolete Past participle of delve
  • verb buried

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Examples

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

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And in that roche is prented the forme of his body; for he smot so strongly and so harde him self in that roche, that alle his body was dolven with inne, thorghe the myracle of God.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And in that roche is prented the forme of his body; for he smot so strongly and so harde him self in that roche, that alle his body was dolven with inne, thorghe the myracle of God.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • The Egyptians went and dolven pits for water all about by the river, and they found no water to drink but all was blood.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory, but they could not move it in no manner.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • Solomon for this cause made it to be taken up and dolven deep in the ground.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • This was a great penance and a token of a great repentance, for there be in the psalm twenty-one verses, and twenty-one times he was dolven.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • Also I have dolven in the deep earth, and have brought forth a fountain out of the abysm, and thou sayst I should stop it.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

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  • Also means "buried".

    November 28, 2011