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English
Verb
hapned
- Obsolete spelling of happened.
1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what wise musike may be to a noble man necessarie: and what modestie ought to be therin”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published , →OCLC, 1st book, page 26:And if any man hapned, by longe sittynge, to slepe, or, by any other countenance, to shewe him selfe to be weary, he was sodaynly bobbed on the face by the seruantes of Nero, […]
1656, Traiano Boccalini, I Raggvagli Di Parnasso: Or, Advertisements from Parnassus:In the Exchange of Pernassus, the most important Bankruptship is discovered that ever hapned in the memory of man; […]
1680, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations made upon the Icy Noctiluca:Buy I having returned to the Author both his own Papers, and my Version of them, in one Roll, it unfortunately hapned, that before the Icy Noctiluca was printed off, there broke out in the Night a great Fire […]