v. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + SLEEP v.] a. intr. Only in pa. pple.: Overcome with sleep. b. trans. To neglect through sleep.
1382. Wyclif, Prov. xxiii. 34. And thou shalt ben as slepende in the myddil se, and as the steris man al forslept, the steer staf lost.
1571. Campion, Hist. Irel., VII. (1633), 21. This did he before the generall flood one hundred and twentie yeares, when every man foreslept the monition.
