holpen [hohl-puh n] Examples verb Nonstandard.
- a past participle of help.
Examples from the Web for holpen Historical Examples of holpen
He is the man which hath most holpen Mr. Wickham in our affares.
Richard Cocks
Helpen, “he can be helpen thereof” (N122,a), helped; also holpen.
Early English Dramatists–Recently Recovered “Lost” Tudor Plays with some others
Various
He answered, “As of a right evil life, for of nought can I be holpen, nor have I kinsmen to redeem me.”
The Story of Grettir The Strong
Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
Neither by changing the said horsse could the matter be holpen: for euen the same thing happened to the other horsses.
Holinshed Chronicles, Volume I, Complete
Raphaell Holinshed
Whych with greate diligence hee reassembled, and reduced the same to order, and (holpen by good Fortune,) wythin xxx.
William Painter
British Dictionary definitions for holpen holpen verb
- archaic a past participle of help