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forworn, ppl. a. arch.|fəˈwɔːn|
[mod.Eng. (strong) pa. pple. of forwear v.]
Worn out, exhausted, decayed, grown old, the worse for wear.
1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. li. Wks. (1876) 117 To botche or mende an olde forworen thynge. 1570Dee Math. Pref. A iij b, They, who haue..requested me, (an old forworne Mathematicien) to take pen in hand. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 35 A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, And soild with dust. 1625Gonsalvio's Sp. Inquis. 64 He was an old forworne soldiour. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 545 Old, wearied, and for-worne Hackneyes. 1849J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno 32 Those spirits who were foreworn and naked, changed colour. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 410 Slowly he went, for afternoon it was, And with the long way was he much foreworn. |