† forˈwear, v. Obs.
[f. for- prefix1 + wear v.]
trans. To wear out, wear away, exhaust.
| c 1205 Lay. 14479 Þenne mihte þu mid winne þi lif al uor⁓werien mid haueken & mid hunden hired-plæie luuien. a 1240 Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 251 Þah ich hefde a þusent tungen of stele and talde aðet ha weren alle for⁓werede. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 736 Wiþ cloutede schon & cloþes ful feble Wel neiȝ for-werd. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. ii. (Tollem. MS.), Meuynge of watres, þat diggeþ and forwereþ [1535 wereth] þe nesche parties of þe erþe. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xix. (1859) 19 Teethe had he none, but they were al forbroke, forweryd, and forfaren. a 1577 Gascoigne Flowers, Jocasta Wks. (1587) 104 You a weake old woman forworne with yeares. |
Hence forˈwearing vbl. n.
| 1609 R. Barnerd Faithf. Sheph. 85 Some in meditating doe vse to speake and gesture; but this a forewearing of the spirits, and too Histrionian like. |