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