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FORAM'INATED, adj. [ foramen, Lat.] Bored full 
of holes. Scott. 
FORAMINO'SE, adj. Full of holes. Scott. 
FORAM'INOUS, adj. Full of holes; perforated in 
many places; porous.—Soft and foraminous bodies, in the 
firft creation of the found, will deaden it; but in the paf- 
fage of the found they will admit it better than harder 
bodies. Bacon. 
FORAMIN'ULOUS, adj. Full of holes. Bacon. Not 
uj'cd. 
FORA'NEOUS, adj. [forum, Lat.] Pertaining to a 
court or market. 
FOR'BACH, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mozelle, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt 
of Sarguemines : two leagues and three quarters north- 
weft of Sarguemines, and three fouth-eaftof Sar Louis. 
FORBAL'CA, /. in old records, a balk or ridge of 
land lying forward or next to the highway. 
To FORBEAR', v. n. pret. I forbore, anciently forbare; 
part, forborn ; [poyibacpan, Sax. For has in compofttion the 
•power of privation ;, as, forbear : or depravation; as, 
forfwear, and other powers not esfily explained. ] Toceafe 
from any thing ; to intermit.—Who can forbear to admire 
and adore him who weighed the mountains in feales, and 
the hills in a balance. Cheyne. —To paufe ; to delay : 
I pray you tarry : paufe a day or two, 
Before you hazard ; for in chilling wrong, 
I lofe your company; there fore/in-tarn a while. Skakefpeare. 
To omit voluntarily ; not to do ; to abftuin.—Ke forbare 
to go forth, i Sam. xxiii. 13. 
At this he darted, and forbore to fwear ; 
Not out of confidence of the fin, but fear. Drydert. 
The wolf, the lion, and the bear, 
When they their prey in pieces tear, 
To quarrel with themfelves/o/'icar. Denham. 
To redrain any violence of temper ; to be patient.—By 
long forbearing is a prince perfuaded, and a foft tongue 
breaketh the bone. Prov. xxv. 15. 
To FORBEA'R, v. a. To decline; to avoid volun¬ 
tarily.— Forbear his prefence, until time hath qualified the 
heat of his difpleafure. Skakefpeare. 
So angry bulls the combat do forbear, 
When from the wood a lion does appear. Waller. 
To abdain from ; to fhun to do ; to omit.—There is not 
any one aClion whatfoever which a man ought to do, or 
to forbear, but the Scripture will give him a clear pre¬ 
cept or prohibition for it. South. —Tofpare; to treat w ith 
clemency..—With all lowlinefs and meeknefs, with long 
{wiring, forbearing one another in love. Eph. iv. 2.—To 
withhold.— Forbear thee from meddling with God, who 
is with me, that, he deftroy thee not. 2 C/iron. xxxv. 21. 
—To part with : 
My wombe her burdein would forbeare, 
And bad me call Lucina to me neare. Spcnfer. 
But why have ye (faid Arthegall) forborne 
Your owne good ftiield in dangerous difmay ? Spenfer. 
FORBEAR'ANCE, f. The care of avoiding or fluin¬ 
ning any thing ; negation of practice.—Liberty is the 
power a man has to do, or forbear doing, any particu¬ 
lar aCtion, according as its doing or forbearance has the 
actual preference in the mind. Locke. —Intermiflion of 
fomething. Command of temper.—Have a continent for¬ 
bearance, ’till the fpeed of hisrage goes flower. Shakejpeare. 
—Lenity ; delay of punifhment ; mildnefs.—Nor do I 
take notice of this inflance of feverity in ourown country 
to juflify fuch a proceeding, but only to difplay themild- 
nels and forbearance made ufe of under the reign of his 
prefent inajefly. Addifon. 
“ Forbearance is no acquittance.”—The Latins fay, 
Quod defertur non aufertur. The Germans, Anfgejckoben is 
mcht gejhencht. The French, Ce qui eft dijfere n'ejl pas perdu. 
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The Italians, IIgqfiigo pvo differerfc, ma non fi toglie. All 
which ferve to flievv, that though a man may defer de¬ 
manding his right for a time, yet it is not to be thereby 
inferred that he has wholly given it up. 
FORBE AR'ER,y. An intermitter ; interceptor of any¬ 
thing : 
The weft as a father all goodnefs doth bring ; 
The eaft a forbearer, no manner of thing. Tujfer. 
FORBES (Patrick), an eminent Scotch prelate, bora 
in 1564. He was lord of Corfe, and baron of O’Neil, in 
the county of Aberdeen. His education he received 
both at the univerfity of Aberdeen and that of St. An¬ 
drew’s; but he does not appear to have been originally 
intended for the ecclefiaftical profeflion. At the time 
when he entered into public life, the affairs of the 
church of Scotland were in a ftate of much confufion. 
Ever Alice the reformation had taken place in that coun¬ 
try, tlie proteftant clergy had been draggling to fecure 
to themfelves a competent maintenance out of the eccle- 
fiafiical domains. Their interefts, however, were fiacri- 
ficed to the ambition of the crown, and the avarice of 
the nobility. While they groaned under extreme po¬ 
verty, they were able to obtain little more than fair 
words and liberal promifes. It was partly owing to thefe 
circumftances, and partly to fevere laws intended to ren¬ 
der churchmen as inconfiderahle as they were indigent, 
that many of the 1110ft: eminent clergy in different parti 
of the kingdom were led to forfake their charge. In 
this ftate of things the lord of Corfe made himfelf con- 
fpicuous by the encouragement which he held out to 
able and pious ininifters, and by the inftruCtions which, 
notwithftanding his being a layman, he perfonally deli¬ 
vered to the people in occafional difeourfes. The fer- 
vices which he rendered to the proteftant religion by 
thefe exertions, occalioned him to be frequently folicited, 
by perfons both in church and ftate, to engage in the 
work of the miniftry. At length he yielded to their 
wifties, and was ordained prefbyter when he was forty- 
eight years of age. In 1618 king James fignified his 
pleafure to nominate him to the fee of Aberdeen. That 
appointment he would willingly have declined, fiom 
motives of unaffected humility, and refufed it for leverai 
months; but was at laft prevailed upon, by the king’s 
repeated commands, as well as the earned: requeft of the 
clergy and laity of the diocefe, to accept of it. In his 
conduct as a bifhop he appears to iiave been uniformly 
influenced by an honeft and confcientious regard to the 
obligations of the character which he had affumed, and 
what he conceived to be the belt means of promoting the 
interefts of piety and virtue. He was not only careful to 
fix worthy clergymen in his diocefe, but to make proper 
provifion for their fupport, and that of their fucceffors. 
For this purpofe he appropriated much of his own in¬ 
come : and lie fucceeded in recovering many of the re¬ 
venues which in the convulfions of the times had been 
loft or neglected; and in obtaining confiderable augmen¬ 
tations to them. He was very ftiiCt in examining candi¬ 
dates for orders, and frequently vifited his diocefe, to en¬ 
quire into the conduCt and manners of his clergy. Some 
time after his promotion to his biftiopric, he was ap¬ 
pointed chancellor of the univerfity of Aberdeen, and de*. 
ferves to have his name recorded with honour for the 
fervices which he rendered to that feat of learning. 
Befides repairing the buildings, he increafed the library 
of the univerfity, revived the profefTorfhips of divinity, 
canon law, and phyfic,'and alfo procured the addition of 
a new profelForfhip in divinity. He died in 1635, when 
feventy-one years of age, leaving behind him A Com¬ 
mentary on the Revelation, w hich was printed aRLondon 
in 1613 ; and a treatife entitled Exercitaticncs de Verbo Dei, 
IS Dijfertatio de Verfionibus vernaculis. 
FORBES (John), fon of the preceding, born at Aber¬ 
deen in 1593. Having gone through a courfe of theo- 
logical (Indies at Aberdeen, he was lent to the German 
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