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▪ I. happen, v.|ˈhæp(ə)n|
Forms: 4–5 happene(n, hapnen, 4 hapene, -in, -yne, 4–6 happine, -yn(e, 5 happin, -on, 4–8 hapne, (inflected hapneth, hapned, etc.), 5– happen.
[ME. f. hap n.1 + -en5 2, or extended form of hap v.]
1. intr. To come to pass (orig. by ‘hap’ or chance); to take place; to occur, betide, befall. The most general verb to express the simple occurrence of an event, often with little or no implication of chance or absence of design.
a. with the event expressed by a simple subject. (Formerly sometimes with be as auxiliary.) Said ominously of an accident or some serious thing (spec. death) happening to a person, with vague subject, anything, something.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Magdalena 392 Þu mycht sone peryste be Be storme þat hapnis in þe se. 1526Tindale Mark x. 32 What thinges shulde happen vnto him. 1528Lyndesay Dreme 56 The mater hapnit thus. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. (1549) 153 He shewed there all that was hapned. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxx. 175 The greatest evill that can happen in this life. 1709Steele Tatler No. 5 ⁋8 There happened between these Two Men a Dispute about a Matter of Love. 1795H. Nelson Let. 10 Mar. (1945) II. 18 A glorious death is to be envied; and if anything happens to me, recollect that death is a debt we must all pay. 1811Princess Charlotte Let. 11 Oct. (1949) 9, I am going again on Monday at 1, unless anything should happen between this time & that. 1829Blackw. Mag. June 719/1 In the event of ‘any thing happening to his father’, as the modern phrase for the termination of man's mortal career runs. 1862Cornhill Mag. (1863) VIII. 574 Doctor says I shall not last long, so I don't think I shall be removed before anything happens. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 131 He would like to know what will happen to him. 1884G. C. Davies Peter Penniless x, It isn't a night for any man to be left out in if anything has happened to him. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines ii, I will..arrange that in the event of anything happening to us or to you, that your son shall be suitably provided for. 1965N. Dunn Talking to Women 40 Lots of people they plan and they put this away for when they get old and that type of thing and then anything happens and who has it, their kids, don't they?
b. impersonally, with or without it. The event may be expressed by a subord. clause or inf. phr. following the vb.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Petrus 464 Sa happinnyt þan in þat stede Þar wes dede lyand a ȝong man. Ibid., Bertholemeus 73 Gyf it hapyne sa þat he Wil thole hyme of ȝou fundyn be. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxv. 118 If it hapne þat any man..dye by þe way. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 382 That I haue hecht I sall hald, happin as it may. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 13 b, If there happened to be any thing broken. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. ii. 6 b, It happened not so. 1660Blount Boscobel i. (1680) 47 Some of their party..might quarter at the house (as had often hapned). 1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Ser. & Com. 127 It happening to Rain. 1796Jane Austen Pride & Prej. vii. (1833) 24 As it happens, they are all of them very clever.
†c. with an indirect object (dative): To befall. Constr. as in a or b. Obs. or dial.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 27 Þe haþel clene of his hert hapenez ful fayre. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Johannes 147 It hapnyt syne þir ȝunge men twa Vith Johne, þare master, for to ga. c1400Destr. Troy 8831 Now fryndes, in faith, vs is faire happont. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3178 If hym hapne to haf enemys. 1523Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII, c. 4 §3 If..it shall happen any such person or persons to retourne into the realme. 1596Spenser State Irel. (Globe) 612/1 Yf it should happen the Captayne suddaynly to dye, or to be slayne in battell. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1656) 52. 1801 E. Helme St. Margaret's Cave III. 272 Lest any vexatious accident should happen him by the way. 1815E. S. Barrett Heroine II. 123 No harm shall happen you.
†d. With out. (Cf. to fall out.) Obs.
a1643Ld. Falkland in View some Exceptions, etc. (1646) 124 The case he puts is morally impossible to happen out. 1684tr. Eutropius vii. 106 It happened out that these two Consuls..were slain. 1701Swift Mrs. Harris' Petition Wks. 1755 III. ii. 60 Here's an ugly accident has happen'd out.
†2. With to, unto: To fall to the lot of; to fall into the hands of; to come in the way of. Obs.
1574Whitgift Def. Aunsw. i. Wks. 1851 I. 154 If temporal dominion or possession happen to the minister of the gospel. 1581Savile Agric. (1622) 186 His Pretorship also he passed ouer in the same sort, with the like silence: for none of the iudiciall places happened vnto him. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law (1636) 37 All such duties, rents, reliefes, wardships, coppyholds or the like, that had hapned unto him. 1686W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. x. 53 So little a part of it, as that which will happen to my share. a1764R. Lloyd Fam. Lett. Rhimes Wks. 1774 II. 85 More compassion..Than always happens to the share Of the more cruel human fair.
3. a. To have the hap or fortune (to do something).
(With the indirect obj. of 1 c changed into the grammatical subject; cf. hap v.1 2.)
13..Cursor M. 3602 (Gött.) Þu may hapin to sla sum dere. 1390Gower Conf. I. 239 Supplaunt with his slie caste Full ofte happeneth for to mowe Thing which another man hath sowe. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 160 b, If they happen to eate Lupines, they will straight swell under the eyes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 740 One of their Ships..happened to strike on a great Whale with her full stemme. 1792Gentl. Mag. 17/2 The conversation happened to turn on the lottery. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. iii, I happen to know that she is. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 8 The impression that the hearer..happens to have formed.
b. Used with varying degrees of intensity to support or imply an assertion, const. inf. Also used impersonally, in which case it is sometimes followed by a subordinate clause.
1933F. Baldwin Innocent Bystander (1935) v. 95 She happens to be my only sister's child and I have an interest in her. 1937S. Lewis in Colophon Feb. 220 Main Street, which is always put down as my first book, happens to have been my seventh. 1956N. Coward South Sea Bubble ii. i, Ch. You have got it in for her, haven't you? C. Certainly not. I just don't happen to like the way she goes on. 1957B. & C. Evans Dict. Contemp. Amer. Usage 217/1 We happen to like her. Ibid., It happens we like her. 1973‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Answer vii. 74 You don't happen to have any cigarettes?
4. a. To chance to be or to come; to come or go casually; to make one's appearance; to ‘turn up’, occur. Obs. or dial. exc. as in b.
a1400–50Alexander 2364 Alexander with his armee..Has happend ȝit ai hedire to þe herre of his faes. c1470Henry Wallace v. 351 Scho..tald his eyme, that he was hapnyt thar. 1513Douglas æneis ii. viii. 30 He felt himself hapnit amyd his fone. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cl, The knots or kernels that happen in any part of the body. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake I. v. 37 Two other Officers..coming up to us, asked how we happened abroad so late? 1776G. Semple Building in Water 85, I once happened in Company with a very ingenious Gentleman. 1800Weems Washington i. (1877) 5 Some young Americans happening at Toulon. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxiii, It's the only book thou canst not happen wrong in.
b. with on, upon (occas. of): To come upon by chance or casually, to chance to find or meet with.
1533More Apology 5 [They] can not yet happen on them, but after longe sekynge. 1535Coverdale Esther vi. 1 They happened on the place where it was wrytten [etc.]. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 190 The capitain..happened by chaunce of a fishar man. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 312 If sometime you happen of an uncouth word. 1701Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 71 The Harwich..happ'ned upon a quick sand. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 33 When we were driving our Piles, we often happened on some of the large Stones. 1883W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Oct. 715/2 ‘Pockets’ of precious metals happened upon by miners. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch xii, I had just happened of him up a tree when you began to halloa.
c. with into. Obs. exc. U.S.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 143 a, If at any time a riche man happen into his handes, [etc.]. 1643Myst. Iniq. 36 They happened into the company of a..Priest. 1707W. Funnell Voy. (1729) 193 If they do chance to come amongst them and happen into their hands. 1889Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 29 Oct. 2/3 Happening into a book auction sale in Boston.
d. happen in: To go or come in casually; esp. to ‘drop’ in (at a house); also happen along, happen around, happen back, happen by, happen over. U.S. happen in with, to fall in with, to meet casually. Sc. and Eng. dial.
1749in G. O. Seilhamer Hist. Amer. Theatre (1888) I. 29 Joseph Morris and I happened in at Peacock Bigger's and drank tea there. 1838J. F. Cooper Homeward Bound viii. 112, I only happened in..to make a first call. 1845C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 116 He could hardly have ‘happened in’ at a more fortunate juncture. 1872E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolmaster xxxiii, Miss Nancy just happened over at Mrs. Thomson's humble home. 1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xxxiii (1876) 422 A friend or two happening in now and then to see them. 1882A. Percy Twice Outlawed 101 Under⁓sheriff Knight, of Pepin county, happened along that way. 1883W. Blaikie in Harper's Mag. Nov. 905/1 Just happen in with them at meal-time. 1893McCarthy Red Diamonds I. 34 Say, stranger, have you any objection if I happen in here along of you? 1893K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem (1894) ii. 20 A swarm of horrid insects might happen along and devour the plants. 1901W. Churchill Crisis iii. ii. 366, I happened around at Colonel Carvel's this afternoon. 1930R. Frost Coll. Poems 67, I go nowhere on purpose: I happen by. 1931D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) 261 There we are away over by the East River in the early morning, with no other taxis in sight, and a cop liable to happen along any minute. 1953H. Miller Plexus (1963) viii. 228 We were literally without a cent when he happened along. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 246 She had decided she would just happen back. 1970New Yorker 26 Sept. 35/3 She held the paper in place with her left arm..and to any of the girls who happened in before she fell asleep she explained that she was taking forty winks.
5. trans. (by ellipsis from 4 b.) To meet with casually, to incur. dial.
1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Happen, often used actively, in the sense of, To meet with, to incur. 1884Pall Mall G. 16 Oct. 2/2 Men-of-war are constantly..happening mischances of one kind or another.
6. intr. To be successful; esp. in it's all happening, there is much activity or success. slang.
1949A. Shaw Vocab. Tin-Pan Alley in Music Libr. Assoc. Notes Dec. 44/1 A song happens..when the preparatory work results in a successful bid for popularity. 1962Down Beat 8 Nov. 38 It sounded like they were all striving to create..but it didn't really happen. 1966Crescendo Mar. 2/3 ‘It's all happening’ was one of the more tiresome items in the pseudo-hip phrase books of the recent past. It seldom meant much while it was in fashion, but there has now arisen a situation which it describes exactly. For it really is all happening for Stan Tracey this year. 1967Ibid. Feb. 19/1 It's all been happening at the Village Vanguard lately. Ibid. Dec. 27/4 We could either go back to New York with a flop show, or try to stay over and make a band happen. 1971Melody Maker 9 Oct. 18/5 The guitar solo didn't happen.
▪ II. † ˈhappen, a. Obs.
Also 4 -yne.
[Deriv. of hap n.1 or v.1: suffix uncertain.]
Fortunate, happy, blessed.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 13–15 Þay arn happen þat han in hert pouerté..þay ar happen also þat haunte mekenesse. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 56 Þe hapnest vnder heuen. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Placidas 31 Happyne man is he þat, befor he þire taknis se, Penance to do here wil begyne.
Hence † ˈhappenly adv., fortunately, happily.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Marcus 25 Þare he sa hapinly wrocht þane þat mony sawle to criste he wane.
▪ III. happen, adv. north. dial.
[app. happen v. in pres. subjunctive: cf. mayhap (in north. dial. mappen).]
Mayhap, perhaps, maybe, perchance.
1790Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. 59 Weest happen git an Organ then. 1828Craven Dial., Happen, used as an adverb, probably, perhaps. 1848C. Brontë J. Eyre, She'll happen do better. 1865T. Brierly in Harland Lanc. Lyr. 246 Happen the ice may let in. |