v. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + WEAR v.] trans. To wear out, wear away, exhaust.
c. 1205. Lay., 14477.
| Þenne mihte þu mid winne | |
| þi lif al uor-werien | |
| mid haueken & mid hunden | |
| hired-plæie luuien. |
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 251. Þah ich hefde a þusent tungen of stele ant talde aðet ha weren alle forwerede.
c. 1394. P. Pl. Crede, 735.
| Wiþ cloutede schon · & cloþes ful feble, | |
| Wel neiȝ for-werd. |
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIV. ii. (Tollem. MS.). Meuynge of watres, þat diggeþ and forwereþ [1535, wereth] þe nesche parties of þe erþe.
1413. Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton), I. xix. (1859), 19. Teethe had he none, but they were al forbroke, forweryd, and forfaren.
a. 1577. Gascoigne, Flowers, Jocasta, Wks. (1587), 104.
| You a weake old woman forworne with yeares, | |
| And I God knowes a silly simple mayde? |
Hence Forwearing vbl. sb.
1609. R. Barnerd, Faithf. Sheph., 85. Some in meditating doe vse to speake and gesture; but this a forewearing of the spirits, and too Histrionian like.
