a. Obs. Forms: 1 forȝyttol, 4 forgetel, -il, 4–5 foryetel(l, 5 foȝetylle, forgetyll. [OE. forgytol, forȝeotul, forȝitel, f. forȝietan: see prec.; corresp. to Fris. forgittel, Du. vergetel, LG. forgetel.] Forgetful, forgetting.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Hom., II. 118. He … næs forgyttol, ac ȝefæstnode his lare on fæsthafelum ȝemynde.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxviii. 10. He þat sekis noght god in all his hert he is forgetil.

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1393.  Gower, Conf., III. 98.

        Foryetel, slow and wery sone
Of every thing, whiche is to done.

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1430.  Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, IV. xxxv.

        As I were foryetell reckles
To remembre the infinite outrages.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 174/1. Forȝetylle … obliviosus.

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  Hence † Forgetelness, -ship, forgetfulness. Obs.

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a. 1000.  Lamb. Ps. lxxxvii[i]. 12 (Bosw.). On lande forgytelnysse.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 71. Ten þing ben þe letten men of here scrifte…. Forgetelnesse, nutelnesse [etc.].

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, cxxxvi[i]. 5.

        If I for-gete þe, Ierusalem land,
To for-getelnesse given be mi right hand.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 176.

        So did kyng Philip with sautes on þam gan pres,
Bot for a forgetilschip R. & he boþe les.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 753. The fifthe is foryetelnesse by to muchel drynkynge.

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c. 1450.  Life of St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 2441.

        Þai knew þair forgetilnes,
And þar of asked him forgyfnes.

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