† behappenv.
Obsolete.
To befall, happen. Const. with dative object, or to, unto.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > happen to
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1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xi. sig. Y That is the greatest shame..Which vnto any knight behappen may. View more context for this quotation
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) 98 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 233 Care him behappen!
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 201 Many remarkable occurrences behappened this Martyr.
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