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† forˈwear, v. Obs.
[f. for- prefix1 + wear v.]
trans. To wear out, wear away, exhaust.
c1205Lay. 14479 Þenne mihte þu mid winne þi lif al uor⁓werien mid haueken & mid hunden hired-plæie luuien. a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Þah ich hefde a þusent tungen of stele and talde aðet ha weren alle for⁓werede. c1394P. Pl. Crede 736 Wiþ cloutede schon & cloþes ful feble Wel neiȝ for-werd. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. ii. (Tollem. MS.), Meuynge of watres, þat diggeþ and forwereþ [1535 wereth] þe nesche parties of þe erþe. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xix. (1859) 19 Teethe had he none, but they were al forbroke, forweryd, and forfaren. a1577Gascoigne Flowers, Jocasta Wks. (1587) 104 You a weake old woman forworne with yeares.
Hence forˈwearing vbl. n.
1609R. Barnerd Faithf. Sheph. 85 Some in meditating doe vse to speake and gesture; but this a forewearing of the spirits, and too Histrionian like. |