keepen

English

Etymology

From Middle English kepen, equivalent to keep +‎ -en.

Verb

keepen

  1. (obsolete) plural simple present of keep
    • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
      They keepen all the path.
    • 1584, George Peele, The Arraignment of Paris:
      Mispeake not al, for his amisse, there bin that keepen flocks,
      That never chose but once, nor yet beguiled love with mockes.
    • 1606, Nathaniel Baxter, Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophie:
      They keepen therefore silence in their Flight,
      Till they have scap'd that mountaine in the night.
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