† forgeteladj.

Forms: Old English forgyttol, Middle English forgetel, forgetil, Middle English foryetel(l, Middle English forȝetylle, forgetyll.

Etymology: Old English forgytol , forgeotul , forgitel , < forgietan: see forget v.; corresponding to Frisian forgittel, Dutch vergetel, Low German forgetel.

Obsolete.

Forgetful, forgetting.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [adjective]

forgetelc1000

forgetful1382

mindlessa1425

obliviousc1450

unremembered1453

immemor1535

unremembering1540

unrecalling1594

immemorious1602

elapsive1652

remindless1657

unrecording1813

unretentive1825

forgetting1847

memoryless1857

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 118 He..wæs forgyttol, ac gefæstnode his lare on fæsthafelum gemynde.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxviii. 10 He þat sekis noght god in all his hert he is forgetil.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 98 Foryetel, slow and wery sone Of every thing.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 4868 As I were forȝetel, rekkeles To remembre.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 174/1 Forȝetylle..obliviosus.

Derivatives

† forˈgetelness n. Obsolete forgetfulness.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > [noun] > forgetfulness, oblivion

forgetelnessa1000

forgetel-shipc1330

forgetting1340

forgettingnessa1387

obliviona1393

unremembrancec1449

forgetness1474

forgetfulness1477

oubliance1477

obliviousness?1531

oblivium1699

irrecollection1738

obliviscence1775

irretention1827

irretentiveness1849

oblivescence1880

Punjab head1887

a1000 Lambeth Psalter lxxxvii[i]. 12 On lande forgytelnysse.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 71 Ten þing ben þe letten men of here scrifte..forgetelnesse, nutelnesse [etc.].

a1300 E.E. Psalter cxxxvi[i]. 5 If I for-gete þe, Jerusalem land, To for-getelnesse given be mi right hand.

c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋753 The fifthe is foryetelnesse by to muchel drynkynge.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 2441 Þai knew þair forgetilnes.

forˈgetel-ship n. Obsolete

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