单词 | forwear |
释义 | † forwearv. Obsolete. transitive. To wear out, wear away, exhaust. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > cause to waste away > wear away or down > wear out forweara1240 perusec1475 outweara1542 overwear1591 to work out1609 frazzlea1825 a1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Þah ich hefde a þusent tungen of stele and talde aðet ha weren alle for~werede. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7226 Þenne mihte þu mid winne þi lif al uor-werien [c1300 Otho for-werie]. mid haueken & mid hunden hired-plæie luuien. c1394 P. Pl. Crede 736 Wiþ cloutede schon & cloþes ful feble Wel neiȝ for-werd. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) xiv. ii Meuynge of watres, þat diggeþ and forwereþ [1535 wereth] þe nesche parties of þe erþe. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xix. 19 Teethe had he none, but they were al forbroke, forweryd, and forfaren. 1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta iv. i, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Siii You a weake old woman forworne with yeares. Derivatives forˈwearing n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > wearing away wearing1473 erosion?1541 forwearing1609 wear1729 fret1822 1609 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard (new ed.) 85 Some in meditating doe vse to speake and gesture; but this a forewearing of the spirits, and too Histrionian like. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.a1240 |
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