hapned

Obsolete spelling of happened.

Verb

  1. Obsolete spelling of happened.
    • 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, […] - 1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what wise...
    • In the Exchange of Pernassus, the most important Bankruptship is discovered that ever hapned in the memory of man; […] - 1656, Traiano Boccalini, I Raggvagli Di Parnasso: Or, Advertisements from Parnassus:
    • 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 […] - 1680,...