dolven

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Verb

1. (obsolete) Past participle of delve

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

   ...and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. — J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring

2. buried

   He was ded & doluen. — William of Palerne

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

   ...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

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