Forthrow
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To throw off; cast off; reject. transitive
"The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...]"
Example
More examples"The two stand endlessly facing one another, "Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forthrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance" [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English forthrowen (“to hurl”); equivalent to for- + throw.
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