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hap(2) (iou)



hap verb1 intrans. [hap] arch. & dial. Infl. -pp-. Pa. t. & pple happed, hapt. ME.
[from the noun: superseded by HAPPEN verb.]
Of an event etc.: come about by chance. (Freq. with impers. subj.; formerly also with person affected as indirect obj.) ME.
Tennyson Never had huger slaughter of heroes..Hapt in this isle.
Have the fortune or luck to do. LME.
J. Gay A maiden fine bedight he hapt to love.
Foll. by on, upon: meet with or find by chance. LME.
A. B. Grosart [This book] I have not been fortunate enough to hap upon.
Have luck of a specified kind; fare (well, ill, etc.). LME-E17.