evented

Verb (1)

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
   • […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33

Verb (2)

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
   • ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
     The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178
2. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
   • For as I would my gorget have undon
     To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,
     An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
     Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by...

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