(obsolete) Past participle of delveAnd then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory ... — The Golden Legend...and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. — J.R.R. Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring
buriedHe was ded & doluen. — William of PalerneI had be dolven everydel, And ded, ryght thurgh defaute of slep. — Chaucer...for he smote so strongly and so hard himself in that rock, that all his body was dolven within through the miracle of God. — The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
