a. Obs. Forms: 1 forcúþ, 3 forcud. [OE. forcúp, an accentual variant of fracoð, fracod, corresp. to Goth. frakunþs despised; see FOR- pref.1 and COUTH.

1

  Kluge suggests that the form with stressless prefix may have arisen from the compound u·nforcúþ.]

2

  Perverse, infamous, worthless, vile.

3

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxvii. § 3. Hi habbaþ þæs mennisces þone forcuþestan [v. r. forcuþeran] [dæl] ȝehealden.

4

c. 1000.  Æfric, Hom., I. 268. Swa he oftor on ðære fandunge abryð, swa he forcuðra bið.

5

a. 1175.  Cott. Hom., 219. Þa warð he and halle his iferen forcuðran and wursan þanne ænig oðer ȝesceafte.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 28240. Som forcouþ cniht.

7

c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 33. Þea þat fondeð ham meast; ifindeð ham forcudest.

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