† forsleepv.
Obsolete.
a. intransitive. Only in past participle: Overcome with sleep.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (intransitive)] > go to sleep or fall asleep > sink or drift into sleep or rest
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sink1719
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxiii. 34 The steris man al forslept, the steer staf lost.
b. transitive. To neglect through sleep.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > through sleep
forsleepc1571
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. vii. 27 Before the generall flood..when everye man forslept the monytion.
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