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Where there is a penalty' in an obligation, the party 
grieved by a forged releafe thereof, (hall recover dou¬ 
ble the penalty as damages, and not double the debt 
appearing in the condition. 3/7/?. 172. If a perfon is in¬ 
formed by another that a deed is forged, if he afterwards 
publilhes it as true, he is within the danger of the fta- 
tute. 3 /«/?. 171. The king may pardon the corporal pu- 
nilhment of forgery which tends to common example ; 
but the plaintiff cannot releafe it : if the plaintiff releafe 
or difcharge the judgment or execution, it lhall only dif- 
charge the cods and damages; and the judges fliall pro¬ 
ceed to judgment upon the refidue of the pains, and award 
execution upon the fame. 5 Rep. 50. 
A perfon convicted of forgery, and adjudged to the 
pillory, whereby he becomes infamous, is not allowed to 
be a witnefs ; but fuch conviction is a good exception to 
his evidence. And one.convidted of this crime, may be 
challenged on a jury, fo as to be incapable to ferve as a 
juror; and it hath been holden, that exceptions to per- 
fons found guilty of perjury or forgery, as well as felony, 
&c. are not falved by a pardon. 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 43. 
FOR'GES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Seine, and chief place of canton, in the diltridt of 
Gournay ; celebrated for its medicinal fprings: five pofts 
and a half north-eaft of Rouen,. 
To FORGE'T, v.cu pret .forgot; part, forgotten, or 
forgot ; [popigyran. Sax. vngeten, Dut.]—To lofe me. 
mory of; to let go from the remembrance.— Forget not 
thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in 
thy riches. Ecclef. xxxvii. 6. 
That is not forgot 
Which ne’er I did remember; to my knowledge, 
I never in my life did look on him. Shakefpeare. 
Not to attend ; to neglect.—Can a woman forget her fuck¬ 
ing child 1 Yea, they may forget ; yet 1 will not forget 
thee. Ifa. xlix. 13. 
FORGET'FUL, adj. Not retaining the memory of. 
Caufing oblivion ; oblivious : 
But when a thoufand rolling years are paft, 
So long their puniihments and penance laft, 
Whole droves of minds are by the driving god 
Compell’d to drink the deep Lethean flood, 
In large forgetful draughts to fteep the cares 
Of their palt labours, and their irklome years. Dryden. 
Inattentive; negligent; neglectful; carelefs.—Be not 
forgetful to entertain ftrangers. Iieb. xiii. 2. 
I, in fa£t, a real intereft have, 
Which to my own advantage I would fave ; 
And, with the ufual courtier’s trick, intend 
To ferve my felf, forgetful of my friend. Prior. 
FORGET'FULNESS, f. Oblivion; ceffation to re¬ 
member; lofs of memory.—Steep my fenles in forgetful- 
nefs! Shakefpeare. 
All birds and beafts be hu (It’d ; deep (teals away 
The wild defires of men and toffs of day ; 
And bring’s, defeending, through the filent air, 
A fweet Jorgetfulnefs of human care. Pope, 
Negligence; negleCt; inattention.—The church of Eng¬ 
land is grievoufly charged with Jorgetfulnefs of her duty. 
Hooker. , ' 
FOR'GETIVE, adj. That may forge or produce. A 
word peculiar io Shakefpeare.—Good (herrie lack afeends 
me into the brain, dries me there all the foolifh dull va¬ 
pours, makes it apprehenfive, quick, forgetive, full of 
nimble (hapes, which, delivered to the voice, becomes 
excellent wit. Shakefpeare. 
FORGET'TER, J', One that forgets. A carelefs 
perfon. 
FOR'GIA, f. In old records, a fmithery, a fmith’s 
forge. 
To FORGI'VE, v.a. [popgipan, Sax.] To pardon 
FOR 575 
a perfon ; not to punifli.—Then heaven forgwe hlm too I 
Shakefpeare. —To pardon a crime.—The people that dwell 
therein (hall be forgiven their iniquity. Ifa. xxx-iii. 24. 
If prayers 
Could alter high decrees, I to that place 
Would fpeed before thee, and be louder heard, 
That on my head all might be vifited, 
Thy frailty and infirmer fex forgiven, 
To me committed, and by me expos’d. Milton. 
To remit ; not to exa£t debt or penalty.—The lord of 
that lervant was moved with companion, loofed him, and, 
forgave him the debt. Mat. xviii. 27. 
FORGI'VENESS, f. [pop.gipemmype, Sax.]—The 
a6t of forgiving.—To the Lord our God belong mercies 
and forgivcnefj'es. Daniel. Pardon of an offender. — Thou 
haft promifed repentance and forgivenefs to them that have 
finned againft thee. Prayer of Mary. 
Forgivenefs to the injur’d does belong ; 
But they ne’er pardon who commit the wrong. Dryden. 
Pardon of an offence,—God has certainly promifed for¬ 
givenefs of fin to every one who repents. South .— Tender- 
nefs ; willingnefs to pardon.—Here are introduced more 
heroic principles of meeknefs, J'orgivenefs , bounty, and 
magnanimity, than all the learning of the heathens could 
invent. Spratt. 
Mercy above did hourly plead 
For her refemblance here below ; 
And mild forgivenefs intercede 
To (top the coming blow. Dryden, 
Remiflion of a fine, penalty, or debt. 
FORGI'VER, f. One who pardons. 
To FORGO', v. a. See to Forego. Forgo is the con- 
ffant orthography in Spenfer , where it once bears a parti¬ 
cular fignification of lofe : 
Strongly either flrooke, 
And broke their fpeares ; yet neither has forgon 
His horfe’s back. Fairy Queen. 
FORGO'T, or Forg otten, part. paff. of forget. Not 
remembered.—This fong (hall not be forgotten. Dent. 
xxxi. 21. 
The foft ideas of the chearful note, 
Lightly receiv’d, were ca.f\\y forgot. Prior. 
To FORHA'IL, v. a. Probably for forhaul. To har- 
rafs; tear; torment. An old word : 
All this long tale, 
Nought eafeth the care that doth me forhail. Spenfer. 
To FORHE'ND, v. a. [ for and henbe, Sax. prehen .- 
dere. ] To lay hold on : 
Like as a feareful dove, which through the raine 
Of the wide ayre her way does cut amaine, 
Having farre off efpyde a taffel gent, 
Which after her his nimble winges doth ftraine, 
Doubleth her haft for feare to be for-hent. Spenfer. 
FORIA'NI, a town of the ifland of Corfica: four miles 
fouth of Jlaftia. 
FORl'CULUS, in heathen mythology, a kind of in¬ 
ferior deity who was (up poled to have the guardianfliip 
of the door. 
FORI SF A Mi'Ll ATED, adj. [a term in civil law, 
from forts and familia , Lat.] Put in poffeflion of land in a 
father’s life-time.—Provided the eldeft fon had not re¬ 
ceived a provifion in lands from his father (or, as the 
civil law would call it, had not been forisfamiliated) in 
his life-time. Blackfone. 
FORK J. { furca , Hot .for ch, Welfh; fourche, Fr.] An 
inftrument divided at the end into two or more points or 
prongs, ufed on many occafions. The table fork feenis 
not to have come into ufe in England till the reign of 
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