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for-wyrcan

  • verb
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Wright's OE grammar
§649;
Add: p. -wyrhte; pp. -wyrht.
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.
  • ¶ 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. II a.

    to bring

    to an ill condition :-- 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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