holpen
Americanverb
verb
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“Welcome, Sir Lancelot Dulac,” they cried, “the flower of all knighthood! By thee we shall be holpen out of danger.”
From Literature
And added, that if it had not pleased God to have holpen them in that distresse, that it had been better to have perished in body, and to have lived everlastingly, than to have relieved for a poore time their mortal bodyes, and to be condemned everlastingly both body and soule to the unquenchable fire of hell.
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Holp, hōlp, Holpen, hōlp′n, old pa.t. and pa.p. of help.
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In despite of all these troubles, and in the middest of his poverty, a young man, but newly come to man's estate, durst in his mind think of the conquest of Asia, yea of the empire of the whole world, with thirty thousand footmen and five thousand horse, ... howbeit he was furnished with magnanimity, with temperance, with wisdom, and valour: being more holpen in this martial enterprise, with that he had learned of his tutor Aristotle, than with that which his father Philippus had left him....
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Is there any help to be holpen by?
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