v. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + LEAVE v.; = OHG. firleiben.] trans. To leave behind, give up, abandon, forsake, depart from.
a. 1225. Juliana, 33. Ich am wilcweme ne forleaf þu me nawt luuiende lauerd.
c. 1325. Poem Times Edw. II., 374 in Pol. Songs (Camden), 340. I drede me that God us hath for-laft out of his hond.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. metr. iii. 5 (Camb. MS.). Dirknesses for-leften me.
c. 1440. Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), I. xxxviii. In a lityll I forlefte the. That is to saye. I suffre the for to be taryed a lytyl.
