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for-wyrcan

  • verb [ weak ]
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for-wyrcan, -wyrcean; p. -worhte, -wyrhte; pp. -worht, -wyrht [for-, wyrcan to work, do] .
Wright's OE grammar
§649;
to miswork, do wrong, sin; măle ăgĕre, delinquĕre, peccāre
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  • Ðæt ðam forworhtum mannum beo ðe mára ege for úre gesomnunge

    that to the wrong doing men there may be the more fear for our assemblage,

    • L. Ath. v. § 8, 3
    • ;
    • Th. i. 236, 16.
  • He wiste forworhte, ða he ǽr wlite sealde

    he knew [they had] done wrong whom he had before gifted with beauty,

    • Cd. 40
    • ;
    • Th. 53, 6
    • ;
    • Gen. 857.
  • Iudas hine sylfne aheng, and rihtlíce gewráþ ða forwyrhtan þrotan, seó ðe belǽwde Drihten

    Judas hanged himself, and justly bound the sinful throat, which had betrayed the Lord,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 250, 15.
to do for, destroy, ruin, convict, condemn; perdĕre, destruĕre, labefactāre, condemnāre
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  • Ða Perse ondrédon ðæt man ða brycge forwyrcean wolde

    the Persians dreaded that they would destroy the bridge.

    • Ors. 2, 5
    • ;
    • Bos. 46, 8.
  • Gif hwá hine sylfne forwyrce on mænigfealdum synnum

    si quis seipsum multĭfāriis peccātis labefactāvĕrit,

    • L. M. I. P. 44
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 276, 28: L. E. G. 4
    • ;
    • Th. i. 168, 22.
  • He biþ egeslíc to geseónne ðam ðǽr mid firenum cumaþ forþ forworhte

    he shall be dreadful to see to those who come ever done for with crimes,

    • Exon. 21 b
    • ;
    • Th. 57, 20
    • ;
    • Cri. 921.
  • Wá me forworhtum

    woe to me ruined!

    • 75 a
    • ;
    • Th. 280, 20
    • ;
    • Jul. 632.
  • Se ðe þýfþe oft forworht wǽre openlíce

    he who has often been convicted openly of theft,

    • L. Ath. v. § 1, 4
    • ;
    • Th. i. 228, 25.
  • Ðe forworht wǽre

    who has been condemned,

    • L. E. G. 10
    • ;
    • Th. i. 172, 16.
  • Ne dýde man ǽfre on Sunnan dæges freólse ǽnigne forwythtne [forworhtne MS. B.] man

    let not a man ever put any condemned man to death on the festival of Sunday,

    • L. C. S. 45
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    • Th. i. 402, 10: L. E. G. 9
    • ;
    • Th. i. 172, 14.
to forfeit; amittĕre
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  • Ðæt man sceolde ge-earnian ða wununga on heofenan ríce, ðe se deófol forwyrhte mid módignysse

    that man should merit the dwellings in the kingdom of heaven, which the devil had forfeited through his pride,

    • Homl. Th. i. 12, 28.
  • Gif hwá freót forwyrce

    if any one forfeit his freedom,

    • L. Ed. 9
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    • Th. i. 164, 10: L. Edg. ii. 2
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    • Th. i. 266, 13: L. In. 5
    • ;
    • Th. i. 104, 15.
  • Ic forworht hæbbe hyldo ðine

    I have forfeited thy favour,

    • Cd. 48
    • ;
    • Th. 62, 3
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    • Gen. 1024: Blickl. Homl. 25, 1: L. Alf. pol. 42
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    • Th. i. 90, 20: L. Eth. vii. 16
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    • Th. i. 332, 16.
Etymology
[
Ger. verwirken to forfeit.
]
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v.  for-wyrht for-wyrht un-forworht.
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