About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds,had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,[…].
(auxiliary, followed by a past participle)Used to form thepast perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
I felt sure that Ihad seen him before.
When I'd (already) done some exercise, I had a cappuccino.
Julius Cæsarhad escaped death, if going to the Senate-house, that day wherein he was murthered by the Conspirators, he had read a memorial which was presented unto him.
Had, likethat, is one of a small number of words to be correctly used twice in succession in English in a non-contrived way, e.g. “Hehad had several operations previously.”
^Róna-Tas, András;Berta, Árpád; Károly, László (2011),West Old Turkic: Turkic Loanwords in Hungarian (Turcologica;84), volume II, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page1277
had in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Þrīhādas sind worda. Sē formahād is þe spricþ be him selfum ānum ("iċ seċġe", oþþe mid ōðrum mannum on maniġfealdum ġetæle, "wē seċġaþ"). Sē ōðerhād is þe sē forma spricþ tō ("þū sæġst", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "ġē seċġaþ"). Sē þriddahād is be þǣm þe sē formahād spricþ tō þǣm ōðrumhāde ("hē sæġþ", oþþe maniġfealdlīċe "hīe seċġaþ").
Verbs have threepersons. The firstperson speaks about himself alone ("I say", or with other people in plural number, "we say"). The secondperson is whomever the first person speaks to ("you say", or in plural "ye say"). The thirdperson is whomever the firstperson speaks about to the other one ("he says", or in plural "they say").
“had”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2026
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke,et al., editors (1950–present), “had”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867
