holden

• Rhymes: -əʊldən

holden

1. (archaic) past participle of hold
   • Holland

     Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.

   • 1766, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

     The court of sweinmote is to be holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the swein-mote, thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

     She was pale and trembling. He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself, which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden.

• held on, hondel

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• Rhymes: -ɔldən

holden

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of hollen

holden

1. to hold

holden

1. inflection of hold:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

• halden

From Old English healdan, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

holden

1. to hold
2. to consider

• English: hold
• Scots: hald, hauld, haud, had
• Yola: houle