Forwrought
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of forwork form-of, participle, past
- 1 Worked-up; agitated; troubled.
"[...] Arthur; a fearful night it was: there was a sough in the air, a sound drawing nigh like that of a host marching:- — but you're looking pale and forwrought, man; is any thing ailing ye?"
- 2 Blocked; obstructed.
"And Æthelwold sat within the ham, with the men that to him had bowed, and he had forwrought [obstructed] all the gates in, and said that he would either there live or there lie. Thereupon rode the ætheling on night away, and sought the [...]"
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More examples"[...] Arthur; a fearful night it was: there was a sough in the air, a sound drawing nigh like that of a host marching:- — but you're looking pale and forwrought, man; is any thing ailing ye?"
Etymology
From forwork, equivalent to for- + wrought.
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