† forliev.
Obsolete.
I. Senses relating to sexual conduct.
1. reflexive. Of a woman: To prostitute herself.
ΚΠ
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. vi. §2.
a1000 Laws Cnut liv.
2. intransitive for reflexive. (Often conjugated with be). To commit fornication. Const. by or with.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > fornicate
forliec1175
folly1357
fornicate1552
forfare1597
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3117 Forr þa mann munnde trowwenn wel. Þatt ȝho forrleȝenn wære.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 519 And with him to be forlayne.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. i. 54 Prevalie with the bull forlane wes sche.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. vii. 72 The quhilk Anchemolus..had forlayn his awin stepmoder by.
3. transitive. Of the man: To lie with, violate.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > a woman
forliec1275
defoulc1290
dishonour1393
defilea1400
file?a1400
spilla1400
foilc1440
diviciatec1470
foul?1473
fulyie1505
vitiate1547
dishonest1565
fray1567
out1922
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7672 Heo for-læiȝen þa wif.
a1400 Coer de L. 924 Forleyn was his doughter yyng.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Roxb.) 191 How many a wyfe & maide hathe be forlayne.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. e iij b He wolde haue forlayne that maide.
II. Senses relating to smothering.
4. To smother by lying upon, to overlie.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by smothering or suffocation
smorec725
athrysmc885
stranglea1300
overliea1382
forliea1400
to stop the breath (more rarely the wind) ofc1400
overlayc1425
querken1440
smoulder1481
suffoke1490
stiflea1535
smoor1535
smother1548
suffocate1599
asphyxiate1835
asphyxy1843
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8623 Þat was for-lain Moght neuer couer þe lijf again.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 8602 An womman had hir childe for-layne.
III. Senses relating to tiredness.
5. To be fatigued with lying (in bed).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > specific
forfare1393
forlie1423
to blow outc1440
flakec1500
to break one's brain, mind, wind1598
stress1756
to hit the wall1974
1423 Kingis Quair xi For-wakit and for-walowit, thus musing Wery forlyin..I herd the bell to matyns ryng, And vp I rase, no langer wald I lye.
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