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Fordone

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Exhausted; overcome; worn out.

    "After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich thoſe ſix books cõpile [compile] / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile."

  2. 2
    Utterly ruined; destroyed.
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of fordo form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn, from Proto-Germanic *fradōnaz, past participle of *fradōną (“to fordo; do away with”), equivalent to for- + done. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdäin, Dutch verdaan, German vertan.

Etymology 2

From Middle English fordon, from Old English fordōn, from Proto-Germanic *fradōnaz, past participle of *fradōną (“to fordo; do away with”), equivalent to for- + done. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ferdäin, Dutch verdaan, German vertan.

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