Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete and improper form of
driven , past participle of drive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete of
drive .
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- verb obsolete Past participle of
drive
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Examples
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An eight per cent drop is certainly worth having, but we would much rather argue – and most of it will be droven by “nanny state” arguments.
Ontario bill would ban cellphone use by drivers « Stephen Rees's blog 2008
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An eight per cent drop is certainly worth having, but we would much rather argue – and most of it will be droven by “nanny state” arguments.
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Actually, the driver who brought me here for the show today said, unsolicited, I'm really going to miss Martha and said he's droven -- he's driven Mark Burnett here four times, Alexis, her daughter, here five times.
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And they explained, as they were standing there on the street in Vinton, Louisiana, with their car droven into the tree, that the Lord had told them to do this, which, of course, increased the astonishment of the police of Vinton, Louisiana, even more.
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years 1998
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I was droven to my hotel by the most melancholly driver of a four-wheeler that I ever saw.
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I was droven to my hotel by the most melancholly driver of a four-wheeler that I ever saw.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887
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For, from a perfect congruity of the motions of two distant bodies, the intermediate fluid particles are separated and droven away from between them, and thereby those congruous bodies are, by the incompassing mediums, compell'd and forced neerer together; wherefore that attractiveness must needs be stronger, when, by an immediate contact, they are forc'd to be exactly the same: As I shew more at large in my _Theory_ of the _Magnet_.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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A lap droven by Kimi Räikkönen at Indianapolis Speedway (USA) in 2005, Kimi is going for pole, it's a pity for him: it's a 2nd place, behind Jarno Trulli (Toyota).
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A lap droven by Kimi Räikkönen at Indianapolis Speedway (USA) in 2005, Kimi is going for pole, it's a pity for him: it's a 2nd place, behind Jarno Trulli (Toyota).
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A lap droven by Kimi Räikkönen at Indianapolis Speedway (USA) in 2005, Kimi is going for pole, it's a pity for him: it's a 2nd place, behind Jarno Trulli (Toyota).
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