ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial. Also irreg. 3 Orm. forwurrþenn(-like;, forworthyn, 9 dial. forwoden. [OE. forworden, pa. pple. of forweorðan: see FORWORTH v.] Perished, gone to ruin. Hence (Orm.) Forwurþenlike adv., corruptly, perversely.

1

c. 1200.  Ormin, 6244.

        Forr ȝiff þeȝȝ wirrkenn ȝunnkerr weorrc
  Forrwurrþennlike & ille.

2

c. 1440.  Jacob’s Well (E.E.T.S.), 106. Þou faryst as a forworthyn man, þat had leuere to lyen & rottyn in prisoun þan to do penaunce.

3

1508.  Dunbar, Flyting w. Kennedie, 105. Forworthin fule, of all the warld reffuse.

4

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VIII. iv. 21.

        A grysly den and ane forworthyne gap
Of Cacus.

5

1691.  Ray, N. C. Words, 27. Fore-worden with Lice, Dirt &c. i. e. over-run with.

6

1847.  Halliw., Fore-warden, destroyed, undone. North.

7

1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss. ‘They are lost and forwoden i’ muck,’ dirty and disorderly in the extreme.

8