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for-wyrcan

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Grammar
for-wyrcan, p. -wyrhte ; pp. -wyrht .
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to do wrong, be guilty
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  • Búton hé forworhte, ꝥ hé þǽre hádnote notian ne móste,

    • Ll. Th. i. 192, 16.
to injure or destroy by wrongful working.
to treat improperly, use badly
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  • Hié witan willað hwæt hié sellað, and nyllað wietan mid hwelcum woo hié hit gestriéndon oððe forworhton ( wasted it ),

    • Past. 343, 24.

  • Þat hé néfre ne mugen forwerken míne quide ( fail to carry out my bequest ),

    • Cht. Th. 508, 20.
to bring to an end
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  • On worulde geendunge bið seó gálnys forwyrht, and on ðǽre áblinð ǽlc hǽmed,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 70, 2.
to ruin
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  • Ðá sibbe hé forlét and hine mid ðǽm forworhte,

    • Past. 361, 3.

  • Ðurh mænigfealde synna heora eard hý forworhton,

    • Wlfst. 166, 30.

  • Seó mennisce gesceaft þe ðurh Adam forworht wæs,

    • 34, 1.

  • Hæfdon hý forworhte hý sylfe and wurdon of þǽre myrhðe áworpene,

    • 9, 11.

  • Wé wǽron forwyrhte,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 6, 8.
to make guilty; reflex, to commit crime against (wiþ)
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  • Swegen forworhte hine wið Denum,

    • Chr. 1050
      • ;
    • P. 169, 16.

  • Þeáh hwá ágylte and hine sylfne deópe forwyrce ( commit grievous crime ),

    • Ll. Th. i. 376, 16.

  • Gif man hine forwyrce mid deáðscylde,

    • 400, 27
      • :
    • ii. 290, 8.

  • Þæt hé hine sylfne openlíce wið God forwyrce mid heálicre misdǽde,

    • Wlfst. 154, 25
      • :
    • Ll. Th. ii. 312, 32.

  • Ealle þá þe fordémede wǽron oþþe hié selfe forworht hæfdon

    homines quicunque sceleribus obnoxii essent,

    • Ors. 4, 9
      • ;
    • S. 190, 36.
Grammar
for-wyrcan, for-worht,-wyrht
guilty, criminal, sinful.
as regards human law
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  • Wið cyning forwyr[h]t

    majestatis reus,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 13.

  • Se scyldiga man þe byð wið sumne king forweorht,

    • Shrn. 200, 28.

  • Wið his hláford forworht,

    • Past. 143, 3.

  • Gif hé náne gewitnysse hæbbe ꝥ hé forworht sig ( eum malefactorem fuisse ),

    • Ll. Th. ii. 182, 30.

  • Sum forworht wíf dón on carcern,

    • Wlfst. 2, 19.

  • Hé monegum yfelum wið hine selfne forworhtum geárode

    malis noverat parcere,

    • Past. 37, 1.
as regards divine law
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  • Ꝥ se rihtwísa man hreówsige hine sylfne swylce hé wið God forwyrht sig

    ut justus homo poenitentiam agat eorum quae erga Deum deliquerit,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 174, 7.

  • Forworht,

    • Wlfst. 14, 2.

  • Synnum tó fúlne and swýðe forwyrhtne,

    • 34, 16.

  • Ðú, forwyrhte (the lost soul ),

    • 240, 9.

  • Þá forworhtan (the wicked) ... þá þe firnedon,

    • Sat. 620.

  • Þá forwyrhtan (forworhtan, fordémde, v. ll.),

    • Wlfst. 24, 21
      • :
    • 26, 3.
to bring to an ill condition
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  • Eal mancyn wæs þurh deófles láre ... forworht intó helle wíte,

    • Wlfst. 22, 1.
to lose by evildoing, to forfeit ,
in a general sense
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  • Hé hefonríce mid his ágenre scylde forworhte

    ipse coelum perdidit,

    • Past. 233, 20
      • :
    • Hex. 18, 11
      • :
    • Wlfst. 103, 25.

  • Hé nolde niman mancyn neádunga of ðám deófle, búton hé hit forwyrhte,

    • Hml. Th. i. 216, 6.

  • Tó ðám earde wé wǽron gesceapene, ac wé hit forwyrhton,

    • ii. 222, 12.
as a legal term
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  • Þá .iii. hída þe Wístán forworhte wið þone cyning mid unrihtum monslihte,

    • Cht. Crw. 20, 27 (see note p. 113 on crimes for which forfeiture of land was a penalty).

  • Hæbbe hé hit ... bútan hé hit forwyrce,

    • Cht. E. 238, 24.

  • Hit wæs his lǽn ðæt hé on sæt, hé ne meahte ná his forwyrcan ,

    • C. D. ii. 134, 35.

  • Heó hit náge mid nánon þinge tó forwyrcenne, ac hæbbe heó ðone bryce,

    • vi. 147, 35.

  • Sí forworht eal þe hé age,

    • Ll. Th. i. 330, 23.

  • Gif hé bócland hæbbe sý ꝥ forworht þám cynincge tó handa,

    • 382, 19.
to bring about, cause what is evil
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  • Wé geedníwiað and gemyndgiað ðǽre scylde ðe úre ieldesta mǽg ús on forworhte

    parentis primi lapsus iteratur,

    • Past. 312, 15.
Etymology
[
v. N. E. D. forwork; forwrought.
Goth. fra-waurkjan to sin (also reflex.); fra-waurhts sinful :
O. H. Ger. fer-wurchen; fer-worht flagitiosus .
Cf. O. Sax. far-werkón, -wirkian to sin (reflex.); to forfeit.
]
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v. un-forworht.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “for-wyrcan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/46172.

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