forpass 
One day, as \\eefurpamed by the plaine 
With weary pace, he far away espide 
A couple, seeming well to lie lii.s twaine. 
Sfaatr, v. Q., ill. x. 20. 
II. tram. To surpass. 
In nl Truyes cite 
Was noon so fayre, /orpowyijw every wight. 
Chaucer, Troilus, I. 101. 
forpet (for'pet), a. [So., appar. a corruption 
of fourth part (or fourth peckl).] The fourth 
part of a peck, or one sixteenth of a firlot. 
Otherwise called li]ipii: 
In Edinburgh, at the present time, the commonest mea- 
sure for meal is called the /rjV, being the fourth part of 
;i [>rrk. 
H If Chishnini (Warden of the Standards), Testimony, 
[Feb. 12, 186S. 
2341 
Although I may be deserted by all men, integrity and 
llrmness .shall never forsake me. 
Wiixltiiititnn, in Bancroft's Hist. Const., II. 360. 
Abandon all remorse ; 
On horror's head horrors accumulate. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 
Every point which a monarch loses or relinqltishes but 
renders him the weaker to maintain the rest. 
Dryden, Post, to Hist, of League. 
All but mariners 
Plung'd in the foaming brine and quit the vessel. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 
forsaken (for-sa'kn), p. a. Deserted; left; 
abandoned; forlorn. 
The view is a noble one, looking out on the mainland 
and the sea, with the neighbouring island crowned by a 
forsaken monastery. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 235. 
forpinet (f0.-pi"'). '' i. [< ^.forpinen = MLG. forsaker (f<)r-sa'ker), n. One who forsakes or 
forspend 
sldwian, be slow or unwilling, < for- + slduiian, 
be slow, < slaw, slow: see slow, v.] I. trans. 
1. To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct. 
Then ryse, ye blessed flocks, and home apace, 
Least night with stealing steppes doe you forsloe. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., June. 
The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, 
Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form. 
Dryden, Epistles, vi. 15. 
2. To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; 
neglect; omit. 
Let liyrforslow no occasion that may bring the childe to 
quyetnesse and cleanlyuesse. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 131. 
If you can think upon any present means for his deliv- 
ery, do notforetilow it. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, v. 5. 
II. intrans. To be slow or dilatory ; loiter. 
Fore-slam no longer, make we hence amain. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 3. 
!'< ini n<'<l what for woo and for distresse. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 595. 
He was so wasted untlforpined quight, 
That all his substance was consum'd to nought, 
And nothing left but like an aery Spright. 
i. [Verbal n. of for- 
sake, t:] Abandonment. forslowtht, v. t. [Mod. E. as if '*forsloth ;' T&E. 
Until ... the Lord have removed men far away, and lu .f =""". fj' ,. ,},,, .< __i_.i fnr . 
there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. 
Isa. vi. 12. 
forsayt (%'-sa'), v. t. [Not found in ME.; cf. 
ill. x. 57. AS. forsecaan, accuse (= G. versagen, deny, re- 
A dialectal contraction of nounce), < for- + seegan, say: see for- 1 and 
forrat (for'at), . 
forward!. 
forrayt, An obsolete form of foray. 
forrayert, An obsolete form offorayer. 
forret, and o. See/Mr 1 . 
forrel, forril (for' el, -il), . Same &sforel. 
forret, forrit (for'et, -it), . Dialectal contrac- 
tions of forward 1 . 
forrowt, prep. [Var. of fore 1 .] Before. 
Tak ye my sark that is bludy, 
And hing it f arrow yow. 
The Bludy Serk (Child's Ballads, VIII. 150). forsert, 
fors 1 !, A Middle English form of force 1 , forsett, n. 
fors2 (f6rs) 
OF. foriv 
[Local, 
forsake 
saken orforsook, . . _ ... 
(pret.forsok, pp. forsaken), < AS.forsacan (pret. 
forsoc, pp. forsacen), give up, refuse, forsake 
(= OS. farsakan = D. verzaken, deny, forsake, 
= MLG. vorsaken, torseken = OHG. farsachan, 
firsachan, MHG. versachen == Sw. forsaka = 
Dan. forsage, give up, refuse), < for- + sacan, 
forslow then, forslouthen, also, with umlaut,/or- 
slewthen, neglect; </or- + slotcth, slouth, sleuth, 
< AS. slcewth, sloth : see sloth, and cf. forslow.] 
To lose by sloth or negligence. 
I see that thou wilt her abyde, 
And thus forslouthe wilfully thy tyde. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 276. 
Bothe bred and ale, butter, melke, and chese 
Forsleuthed in my seruyse til it myste serue noman. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 445. 
prjr.forseeing. " [< WE~forseen,forsen^< 'AS. for- forslugt, v. t. [ME. forsluggen ; <for- + slug: 
sedn (= OS. forsehan = OHG. farsehan, MHG. 8ee slug.] To lose or destroy by sluggishness. 
versehen), look down upon, despise, neglect, < It [thig , oule 8ynne acci( ij e) forslowthith and forslug- 
for- + sedn, see: see for-' 1 and see 1 .] 1. To gith and destroyeth alle goodes temporels by rechelesnes. 
overlook; neglect; despise. 2. To see; per- Chaucer, Parson's Tale, 
ceive. [Obsolete or provincial in both senses.] forsomucht, conj. Forasmuch; inasmuch; be- 
Same as forcer'*. cause. 
Same as forcet. He was compelled againe to stay till he had a full North- 
say 1 , v . Cf. forsake.] To forbid; renounce. 
Sike worldly sovenance he must/orsoj/. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 
forsee (f6r-se'), v. t.; pret. forsaw, prj.forseen, 
33 anan, 
Forrshamedd off llimm sellfenn. 
Ormulnm, 1. 12528. 
v. t. [< ME. forshapen, 
, < AS. forscapan (pret. 
pp. "forscapen, forscepen), transform 
an. jonage, give up retuse), <. for acan, * M HG.G. verschaffen = Sw.forskapa), <for- 
conteud: see sake. The form and sense of for- \_ _,_ . _ Sg_. s , 'jLj, , d 'A' _-, 
sake touch those of forsay, q. v.] 1. To give 
up ; renounce ; reject. 
We hauen forsaken the worlde, and in wo lybbeth, 
In penaunce and pouerte. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 110. 
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Ps. xxxvii. 8. 
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my 
judgments. Ps. Ixxxix. 30. 
+ scapan, shape, form: see for- 1 and shape.] 
To change the shape of; transform. 
The swalwe Proigne . . . gan make hire waymentynge 
Whi she forshapen was. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 66. 
Unkindelich he was transforrad, 
That he, which erst a man was formed, 
Into a woman vf&sforshape. 
Gower, Conf. A ma i it.. I. 292. 
forshrinkt, v. i. [ME. forshrinken (in pp. for- 
In this King's Time the Grecians/ornooi their Obedience ghronke) , <' AS. forscrincan (pret. forscranc, pi. 
to the Church of Rome. Baker, Chronicles, p. 89. 
2f. To refuse (a request) ; deny (a statement). 
Thou mays t nat forsaktjn that thou art yit blysseful. 
Chavcer, Boethius, ii. prose 3. 
Ihesu, my god & my loueli king ! 
Forsake thou not my desijr. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 27. 
3. To quit or leave entirely ; desert; abandon; 
depart or withdraw from : as, friends and flat- 
flprunwv/f \ Jio. jtnourmwn ^piot. juio^i </n. yi. 
forscruncon, pp.forseruHcen), shrink up, wither, 
<for- + scrincan, shrink: see for- 1 and shrink.] 
To shrink up ; wither. 
Forshronke with heat. 
forsingt, v. t. [ME 
To exhaust (one's 
Chalaundres [larks] fele sawe I there, 
That wery nygh forsongen were. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 664. 
sothe,for sotlte, i. e., for truth, in truth : see for 
and sooth, n.] In truth; in fact; certainly; 
very well : now commonly used ironically. 
If ghe louyden me, forsoothe, ghe schulden hane ioie, 
for I go to the fadir, for the fadir is grettere than I. 
Wydif, John xiv. 28 (Oxt). 
for sothe, Thomas, yone es myn awenn [own], 
And the kynges of this countree. 
Thomas of Ersseldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 105). 
This degree of anger passes, forsooth, for a delicacy of 
judgment. Steele, Spectator, No. 438. 
[Being formerly common as an affected garnish of polite 
conversation, forsooth came to be regarded as noting a 
ladies' man, and was occasionally used, allusively, as a 
noun or a verb. 
I'll never fear you for being too witty, 
You sip so like & forsooth of the city. 
B. Jonson, The Penates. 
her ' th Ugh 
Pepys, Diary, Jan., 1661.] 
terers forsake us in adversity; fortune forsook Forskalia ( f6r-ska'li-a), n. [NL., named for hibit. 
sprecan, deny (= OHG. ftrsprechan, plead for, 
MHG. G. verspreclien, promise), < for- + specan, 
S p re can, speak: see speak.] If. To forbid ; pro- 
him. 
Forsake the foolish, and live. Prov. ix. 6. 
Another Weakening happened to the English Party ; 
the Earl of St. Paul forsakes them, and is reconciled to 
the K. of France. Baker, Chronicles, p. 186. 
The immortal mind that hath/orsoot 
Her mansion in this fleshly nook. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 91. 
= Syn. 3. Forsake, Desert, Abandon, Relinquish, Quit. 
These all express the idea of giving up or leaving. The first 
Peter Forsk&l (died 1763), a companion of Nie- 
buhr in his Arabian journey.] A genus of 
physophorous siphonophorous hydrozoans, of 
the family Agalmida;. F. contorta is an exam- 
ple. Kolliker, 1853. 
Forskaliidae (for-ska-H'i-de), -n.pl. [NL., < For- 
skalia + -idee.] A family typified by the ge- 
nus Forskalia: same as Stephanomiida. Also 
written Forskaliadce. 
three are strong expressions, ordinarily conveying the idea forslackt (f6r-slak'), V. t. [Also improp. fore- 
of loss to that which is left; the fourth, on the other hand, -...-i. . / A,., i 4. <,j af M. n TYI npcrlpot hv idle 
suggests loss to him who relinquishes. Forsake is chiefly SlaeK, <,jor t- ac*.J_ lone) 
applied to leaving that by which natural affection or a 
sense of duty should or might have led us to remain : as, 
to forsake one's home, friends, country, or cause ; a bird 
forsakes its nest. In the passive it often means left des- 
olate, forlorn. Forsake may be used in a good sense : 
as, the color forsook her cheeks ; even hope forsook him. 
Desert may be synonymous with forsake, but in the active 
voice it usually implies a greater degree of culpability, and 
often the infringement of a legal obligation : as, to desert 
one's family, regiment, ship, colors, post. Such was the 
original use of the word. Abandon most fully expresses 
complete and final severance of connection : as, toaban'i'm 
a ship or a hopeless undertaking; toodaiK/onhopeorprop- i. "i/iX" 
erty. Sometimes, but not so often as desert or forsake, it lOrsllpt (tor-Slip 
implies the dropping of all care or concern for an object : 
as, to abandon one's offspring Relinquish is not used with 
a personal object; as, to relinquish a claim, land, effort. 
(Sue lists under relinquish and abandon.) To quit is to 
leave finally or hastily, or both. 
When my father and my mother fin-sake me, then the fOrSlOWt 
Lord will take me up. Ps. xxvii. 10. 
ness; relax; render slack; delay. 
But they were virgins all, and love eschewed 
That might forslack the charge to them foreshewed. 
Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 45. 
The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking coun- 
sel! with his fellowes, laide hands vppon this Peter, and 
brought him before the inquisitor. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 829. 
Thou hast/orsjwfre my being in these wars, 
And say'st, it is not nt. Shak., A. and C., iii. 7. 
2. To bewitch. [Now only prov. Eng. and 
Scotch.] 
Forspekyn or charmyn, fascino. Prompt. Pan., p. 173. 
I forspeake a thyng by enchauntementes. Palsgrave. 
A poison of all ! I think I was forespoke, I. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 1. 
I tak' ye a' to witness, gude people, that she threatens 
me wt' mischief, and forespeaks me. 
Sco((, Bride of Lammermoor, xxxiv. 
3. To injure by immoderate praise ; affect with 
the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck 
upon all objects of its praise. [Now only prov. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
One is said to forspeak another when he so commends 
him as to have a supposed influence in making him practi- 
cally belie the commendation. Jamieson. 
slip ; suffer to escape. Davies. 
Hee . . . shifted off and dallied with them still, untill 
they had forslipt the opportunitie of pursuing him. 
Holland, tr. of Camden's Britain, ii. 127. 
, ,-,-'-slo'), v. [Also improp. foreslow ; 
< ME. forslmven, forslewen, neglect, < AS. for- 
pletely ; exhaust, as by overexertion. 
Is not enough thy evill \\teforespenti 
Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 43. 
Forspent with toil, as runners with a race, 
I lay me down a little while to breathe. 
Shak., S Hen. VI., ii. 3. 
