v. Obs. Forms: see LIE v.1 [OE. forlicȝan (f. FOR- pref.1 + licȝan LIE v.1) = OHG. farligan (MHG. verligen).
Cf. Gr. aorist παρελἐξατο lay with (a woman) secretly, which is etymologically equivalent.]
I. 1. refl. Of a woman: To prostitute herself.
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., III. vi. § 2.
a. 1000. Laws Cnut, liv.
2. intr. for refl. (Often conjugated with be). To commit fornication. Const. by or with.
c. 1200. Ormin, 3116.
| Forr þa mann munnde trowwenn wel | |
| Þatt ȝho forrleȝenn wære. |
c. 1450. Life of St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 518.
| To þe kyng forto be led, | |
| And with him to be forlayne, | |
| With vyolence and synn agayne. |
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. i. 53.
| The luif abhominable of quene Pasyphe, | |
| How prevalie with the bull forlane wes sche. | |
| Ibid., X. vii. 70. | |
| The quhilk Anchemolus was that ilk, I wene, | |
| Defowlit his fadderis bed incestuusly, | |
| And had forlayn his awin stepmoder by. |
3. trans. Of the man: To lie with, violate.
c. 1205. Lay., 15375.
| Heo for-læiȝen þa wif | |
| & godes laȝen breken. |
13[?]. Coer de L., 923.
| Prevyly he tolde the kyng, | |
| Forleyn was his doughter yyng. |
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum (Roxb.), 191.
| Allas! what peple hathe your werre slayne! | |
| What cornes wastede, and doune trode and shent! | |
| How many a wyfe and maide hathe be forlayne, | |
| Castels doune bete, and tymbred houses brent. |
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., e iij b. He wolde haue forlayne that maide that was so yonge and tendre of age, but she myght it nat suffre so grete and so huge as the Geant was.
II. 4. To smother by lying upon, to overlie.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 8623 (Cott.).
| Bot all for noght, þat was for-lain | |
| Moght neuer couer þe lijf again. | |
| Ibid. (c. 1340) 8601 (Fairf.). | |
| To-gedder þai went in bed a-gayne | |
| þat an womman had hir childe for-layne. |
III. 5. To be fatigued with lying (in bed).
1423. Jas. I., Kingis Q., xi.
| For-wakit and for-walowit, thus musing, | |
| Wery, forlyin, I lestnyt sodaynlye, | |
| And sone I herd the bell to matyns ryng, | |
| And vp I rase, no langer wald I lye. |
