ppl. a. arch. [mod.Eng. (strong) pa. pple. of FORWEAR v.] Worn out, exhausted, decayed, grown old, the worse for wear.

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1508.  Fisher, 7 Penit. Ps. li. Wks. (1876), 117. Many craftes men had leuer take vpon them to make a thynge all newe than to botche or mende an olde forworen thynge.

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1570.  Dee, Math. Pref., A iij b. They, who haue (for your sake, and vertues cause) requested me, (an old forworne Mathematicien) to take pen in hand.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 35.

        A silly man, in simple weedes forworne,
And soild with dust of the long dried way.

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1625.  Gonsalvius’s Sp. Inquis., 64. He obtained both a discharge from his seruice, and a fat Bishopricke besides in recompence of his trauailes, and partly in consideration that he was an old forworne soldiour.

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1631.  Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 545. Either tame yong horses, cure lame iades, or refresh old, wearied, and for-worne Hackneyes.

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1849.  J. A. Carlyle, trans. Dante’s Inferno, 32. Those spirits who were foreworn and naked, changed colour and chattered with their teeth.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 410.

          Slowly he went, for afternoon it was,
And with the long way was he much foreworn.

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