v. Obs. exc. arch. or Sc. [f. FOR- pref.1 + WANDER.] intr. To weary oneself with wandering; to wander far and wide. Hence Forwandered ppl. a.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 739. He … forwandreþ in wo · & wakeþ i-wisse on niȝtes.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. Prol. 7. I was wery forwandred and went me to reste.
1563. Sackville, Mirr. Mag., Buckingham, lxxiv.
| And beyng thus alone, and all forsake, | |
| Amyd the thycke, forwandred in despayer, | |
| As one dismayed ne wyst what waye to take. |
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 34. A wearie wight forwandring by the way.
1890. G. A. Smith, Isaiah, II. xvi. 254. His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, the weary, and them that sit in darkness, the far-off heathen.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, xvii. 130. I saw myself already a poor, lost, for-wandered lad, out on the hungry hill, and May Maxwell the bride of the Faa.
