dolve

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dolve

  1. (obsolete) simple past of delve
    • 1545, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, An excellent epitaffe of syr Thomas wyat with two other compendious dytties [] [1], London: Iohn Herforde:
      And wo worth that man, that first dolue the moulde / To fynde out the myne, of syluer and golde.
    • 1552, Thomas Camell, Camelles reioindre to Churchyarde [] [2], London: Hary Sutton:
      And Mannaryng met, both in an Orcharde. / And Dauid the Dicar, came in wyth hys spade: / And dolue vp the Dreamer, tyl the line was made.
    • 1611, Andrew Willet, chapter XII, in Hexapla, that is, A six-fold commentarie vpon the most diuine Epistle of the holy apostle S. Paul to the Romanes [] [3], Cambridge: Cantrell Legge, page 611:
      [] it is not fit for the Prince to digge and dolve, and yet he can doe the greater, to make and ordaine laws: so in the Church affaires, he is not to preach, because he wanteth a calling thereunto.

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dolve

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of delven

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