Is 't not enough the blockhead scarce can read,
But must he wisely look, and gravely plead ?
As far a formalist from wisdom sits
In judging eyes, as libertines from wits.

Young. Love of Fame, Sat. 2.

It was necessary that every candidate should be nominated to the people by two Augurs, who gave a solemn testimony upon oath, of his dignity and fitness for the office this was done in Cicero's case by Pompey and Hortensius, the two most eminent members of the college, and, after the election, he was installed, with all the usual formalities, by Hortensius.

Middleton. Life of Cicero, vol. ii. s. 6.

The diplomatick politicians of whom I speak, and who formed by far the majority in that class, made disadvantageous comparisons even between their more legal and formalizing monarchy, and the monarchies of other states, as a system of power and influence.

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 2. The Christian scheme, without formally repealing the Levitical code, lowered its estimation extremely. Paley. Evidences, vol. i. pt. i. c. 1.

Accent is related to music or song; as appears in the formation of the Latin word, from ad and cantus, and in that of the correspondent Greek term προσφδια, from προς and won-Beattie. Moral Science, pt. i. c. 1. s. 11.

Away, ye worthless, formless race!

Ye weeds, that boast the name of flowers!
No more my native bed disgrace,
Unmeet for tribes so mean as yours.

Langhorne. The Tulip and the Myrtle.

FORME'LL,-Mr. Tyrwhitt says, is put for the female of any fowl, more frequently for a female eagle. And Skinner thinks the word is from the Fr. Femelle, by the insertion of r, and the change of e into o. Junius, from the A. S. Formeel, pactio, bargaining, entreating, agreement.

And eche of them did his busie cure
Benignly to chese, or for to take
By her accord, his formell or his make.

Chaucer. The Assemblie of Foules.

Right as the fresh redde rose newe
Against the sommer sunne colour'd is:
Right so for shame, all waxen gan the hewe
Of this formell, when she heard all this.

FORMER. FO'RMERLY. FOREMOST.

Id. Ib.

Former is fore, (qv.) and maer or mæer, i.e. more, (qv.) Fore-most, A. S. For-mest, fore, FOREMOSTLY. and most, (qv.) More, and most, fore, afore or before; either in space or time. Former, prior, anterior: foremost,-first, earliest, soonest.

The A. S. Forme, and formest, are used by Chaucer.

The kynge's sister Jone, & dame Berenger,
Formast of ilkone, next tham his chanceler.
R. Brunne, p. 157.
For ich formest & ferst. to fader & to moder
Have ybe unboxome.
Piers Plouhman, p. 88.

When that our Lord had created Adam our forme father, he sayd in this wise; it is not good to be a man allone; make we to him an helpe semblable to himself.

Chaucer. Tale of Melibeus.

To get her love no nere was he
That woned at home, than he in Inde,
The formest was alway behinde.-Id. The Duchesse, v.890.

Daniel saw this vision by the floud whose waters lyke as the later waues thruste forthe the former sourges, euen so shall one tribulacion and persecution succede another cōtinually.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 8.

And being so loden, may by them and the cadie with other their inferiour officers be visited, requiring for the visiting no more then formerly they were accustomed to pay at their first coming.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. pt. i. p. 181.

Whom he furnished to encounter as it were in the vaward, against the continual fraudes, perpetual batail and warres of the world, the fleshe and the Deuil, to be forwardest, and as it wer the ensigne bearours, in the very formost rank. Bp. Gardner. Of True Obedience, fol. 42.

But if that nor my former acts, nor what
I have deliver'd, can prevail with you,

To make good my integrity and truth;
Rip up this bosome, and pluck out the heart
That hath been ever loyal.

Massinger. The Unnatural Combat, Acti. sc. 1.

With that the other likewise up arose,

And her faire lockes, which formerly were bownd
Up in one knott, she low adowne did lose,
Which flowing long and thick her cloth'd arownd.

But yet so fast they could not home retrate,

But that swift Talus did the formost win; And, pressing through the preace unto the gate, Pelmell with them attonce did enter in.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 7.

But when he saw his daughter dear
Coming on most foremostly,

He wrung his hands, and tore his hair,
And cryed out most piteously.

Jephthah, Judge of Israel. In Percy, vol. i.
Resolv'd to leave the wicked town,
And live retir'd upon his own,

He call'd his money in;
But the prevailing love of pelf,
Soon split him on the former shelf,

He put it out again.-Dryden. Horace, Epod. 2.

In the sixth year of his reign, complaints being made of the excessive rates of compositions for archbishopricks and bishopricks in the Pope's chamber, which were raised to the treble of what had been formerly paid; it was enacted, that they should pay no more than had been formerly wont to be paid.-Burnet. Hist. of the Reformation, an. 1531.

Dastard, and drunkard, mean and insolent:
Tongue-valiant hero, vaunter of thy might,
In threats the foremost, but the lag in fight.

Dryden. Homer. Iliad, b. i. The most obvious division of society is into rich and poor; and it is no less obvious, that the number of the former bear a great disproportion to those of the latter.

Burke. A Vindication of Natural Society.

Fashion, that sets the modes of dress,
Sheds too her influence o'er the Press :
As formerly the sons of rhyme
Sought Shakspeare's fancy and sublime:
By cool correctness now they hope
To emulate the praise of Pope,
But Pope and Shakspeare both disclaim
These low retainers to their fame.

Lloyd. Epistle to J. B. Esquire. And when they smiled because he [Brunswick] deem'd it near,

His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretch'd his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rush'd into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 3. s. 23. FORMIDABLE. Lat. Formidabilis, forFORMIDABLENESS. mido, which Julius Scaliger FORMIDABLY. thinks is so called-a formis, that is, spectris; and Joseph Scaliger, from the ancient formus, that is, calidus.

That is to be feared or dreaded; that causes

'Tis true, tho' there be rules and rubricks in our Liturgy sufficient to guide every one in the performance of all by duties, yet I believe every one hath some mode and modi or formulary of his own, specially for his private cubicular devotions.-Howell, b. i. Let. 32.

Wherefore it is extremely probable, that about this time they received this creed from the Gallican churches; received it as an orthodox formulary, and an approved rule of faith. Waterland. Works, vol. iv. p.

You have sent me several papers, some in print, some in manuscript. I think I had seen all of them, exceft the formula of association.

Burke. Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, M. P.

The Jews understood this (Gen. xii. 3,) to signify a farmulary, that men should use, when they invocated the choicest blessings on their friends and families, to this effect; a Warburton. Divine Legation, b. vi. s. 1.

God bless thee as he blessed Abraham.

In al maner fornicacioun is herd among ghou and forei cacioun which is not among Hethen men, so that sur haue the wyf of his fadir.-Wiclif. 1 Cor. c. 5.

There goeth a common sayinge, that ther is formietei among you, and suche fornicacion as is not once amonge the Gentyls: yt one shoulde haue his father's wi Bible, 1551. 12

Whilom ther was dwelling in my contree
An archedeken, a man of high degree,
That boldely did execution
In punishing of fornication, &c.

Chaucer. The Freres Tale, v. And straight after that, bringeth againe in favour ye Corinthians the haynouse fornicatoar, whom he former epistle had commaunded to be geuen ouer to Sa Udal. Argument to Corial

fear or affright, dread, terror; fearful, dreadful, of that word) hated the brotheiry of their cloysters: terrible.

When that eternal punishemente shal appeare & be shewed, the countenaunce of God shall be soo formydable and feareful that in the time when miserable sinners shal stande in his sight they shall thinke them self set in a brennynge forneyse of fier.-Fisher. On the Seven Psalmes, Ps. 6.

And therefore now these lords confedered
(Being much increas'd in number and in spite)
So shap'd their course, that gath'ring to a head,
They grew to be of formidable might.

The heroicall spirit of Luther (for I cannot be flatted em chose rather (which galls them to the heart) to be an arm husband, than a fornicating friar.

Bp. Hall. The Honour of the Married Clergie, bis [She] gives up her body to a mercenary wheredem e those fornicated arches which she calls God's hease, c sight of those her altars which she hath set up to be a makes merchandize of the bodies and souls of men.

Milton. Reason of Church Government, b Because we know that Christ never gave a Judicial and that the word fornication is variously s Daniel. Civil Wars, b. vi. Scripture, it will be much right done to our Saviour's to consider diligently whether it be meant here that t Before the gates they sat but actual fornication prov'd by witness can war

On either side a formidable shape.-Milton. Par.Lost,b.ii. divorce, for so our Canon law judges.

Id. Doctrine of Divorce, b. i. c. Vil. If the old fornicator had but told us se h should have had the grace, either to haue set him free. fortune to have us'd him more gently.

Heywood. The Four Prentices of Lee..

If this be true, what will become of the notoriously ric the gross and scandalous sinner, the drunkard, the s the fornicator, the common swearer, the malicios revengeful person, the liar, the extortioner, the ep and such like.-Bp. Bull, vol. i. Ser. 9.

Those travell'd youths, whom tender mothers wean
And send abroad to see and to be seen,
With whom, lest they should fornicate, or woTKE,
A tutor's sent by way of a dry nurse.
Churchill, The Farm

If fornication be criminal, all those incentives which is to it are accessaries to the crime, as lascivious conversi whether expressed in obscene or disguised under my phrases; also wanton songs, pictures, books; the wa publishing, and circulating of which, whether out of fre

or for some pitiful profit, is productive of so extensive a mischief from so mean a temptation, that few crimes, within the reach of private wickedness, have more to answer for, or less to plead in their excuse.

Paley. Moral Philosophy, vol. i. b. iii. pt. iii. c. 2. FOR-PASS, v. To pass forth, pass along.

One day as he forepassed by the plaine With weary pace, he far away espide

A couple, seeming well to be his twaine,
Which hoved close under a forest side,

As if they lay in wait, or else themself did hide.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 10.

For wele or wo she n'ill him not forsake.
Chaucer. The Merchantes Tale, v. 9166.

If thou consider the number and the maner of thy blisses and thy sorrowes, thou maist nat forsaken [negare non possis] that nart yet blissfull.-Id. Boecius, b. i.

But as it were a man forsake,
Unto the wood and waie gan take,

Not for to synge with the birdes.-Gower. Con. A. b. i.

This verse declareth, the impietie) vngodly cruelty) and the forsaking of the lawe of God to be the cause of the calamities of ye Jewes.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 11.

FOR-PINE. Utterly, thoroughly, extremely the honour of hys fayth forgyue the payne of all hys synnes,

pined.

He lai forpyned in the wonde, and to dethe drowg.
R. Gloucester, p. 50.

Now certainly he was a fayre prelat,
He was not pale, as a forpined gost.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 205.

In derkenesse and horrible and strong prison
This seven yere hath sitten Palamon,
Forpined, what for love and for distresse.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 1455.

And thou (my heart) that long for lacke of grace
Forepinde hast bene and in a dolefull case,
Lament no more, let all such gripings go

As bred thy bale, and nurst thy cankred wo

With milke of mournefull dug.

Turbervile. The Lover hoping after a long Suit.

But, through long anguish and self-murdering thought,
He was so wasted and forpined quight,

That all his substance was consumed to nought,
And nothing left but like an aery spright.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 8.

See FORAGE; and Forray, in Jamieson.

Which long time had beene shut, and out of hand Proclaimed joy and peace through all his State, For dead now was their foe, which them forraid late. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 12. Wherefore upon a new aid of certain Gauls being come into m, he entred into the realm of Macedon, (which Antigo15, Demetrius's son held at that time,) with intent only make a forray and to get some spoil in the countrey. North. Plutarch, p. 343. At length, when they occasion fittest found In dead of night, when all the thieves did rest After a late forray, and slept full sound, Sir Calidore him arm'd, as he thought best.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 11.

Then those rovers and forraiers retired in haste unto their ips, because on a suddaine there was a rumour blowne

road, that the Punike armada was coming, consisting of

saile.-Holland. Livivs, p. 650.

With all the speed and haste he could make [he] fled to a mpanie of Persian forrayers that were abroad to waste the untrey, of whom they had intelligence that they apoached.-Id. Ammianus, p. 135.

To leave, quit, desert or relinquish; and thus, renounce, and, (as in Chaucer and Robert of loucester,) to disavow, to deny.

-Zuf eni clerc as felon were itake,

& vor felon iproued, & ne mizte it nozt uorsake,
That me solde uerst desordeine.-R. Gloucester, p. 473.

A brightnesse com fro heuen on Roberd light,
Thre tymes alle ouer, that alle sauh it with sight,
Thris that alle mot se the light on Roberd toke,
Vngracious man was he, thris he it forsoke.

R. Brunne, p. 103.
We hauen forsaken the world, and in wo libbeth,
In penaunce and pouerte.

Piers Plouhman. Crede.

Thanne Petir answerede and seide to him, lo we han forken alle thingis, and he han sued thee, what thanne schal e to us! Jhesus seide to hem, treuly I seye to you, that ye at han forsaken alle thingis, and han sued me in regenecioun whanne mannes sone schal sitte in the seete of his Lajeste, ye schulen sitte on twelve seetis demynge the welve kynredis of Israel.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 19. Then answered Peter, and sayde to hym: Beholde, we ane forsaken all and folowed thee, what shall we haue? esus sayde vnto them: verily I say to you: when the sonne fman shall syt in the seat of his maiestie, ye which folow ne in the second generacion shall syt also vp ō xii. seates, nd judge the xii. trybes of Israel.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

But now shal Christ for hys forsakynge of his own life, in
of his mere liberality.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1151.
So after long pursute and vaine essay,
When I all wearie had the chace forsooke,
The gentle deere return'd the self-same way,
Thinking to quench her thirst at the next brooke.
Spenser, son. 67.

Still violent, whatever cause he took,
But most against the party he forsook.

Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel.
Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake,
With the wild world I dwell in, is a thing
Which warns me, with its stillness to forsake
Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.

Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 3.

FOR-SAY. To say forth, out, or away from, (sc.) what has been said; and thus

To renounce, to deny, to refuse, to forbid.
But shepheard must walke another way,
Sike worldly souenance he must forsay.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. May.

And sithence shepheards beene forsay'd
from places of delight:
For thy, I weene thou be affraid,
to clime this hilles height.
FOR-SHAPE.

Id. Ib. July.

Out of her own shape; and thus, as Mr. Tyrwhitt says, transformed.

The swalow Proigne, with a sorowful lay
Wha morow come, gã make her waimenting

Why she forshapen was. Chaucer. Troilus, b. ii. p. 158.
FOR-SHRUNK.

shrunk up.

Utterly shrunk, entirely

To retard or delay; to procrastinate; and consequentially, to lose or let slip, (sc.) the time, occasion or opportunity.

The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking counsell with his fellowes, laide hands vppon this Peter, and brought him before the inquisitor.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 829. A Table of the French Martyrs. Peter Serre.

Neither did he foreslack the occasion ministred, but went straight to the King.

Now certes, this foule sinne of accidie [i. e. slouth] is eks a ful gret enemie to the livelode of the body; for it ne hath no perveaunce ayenst temporel necessitee; for it forsleutheth, forsluggeth, and destroieth all goodes temporal by recchelesnesse.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

But sith I see that thou wolt here abide
And thus forsiouthen wilfully thy tide,
God wot it reweth me, and have good day.

Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 15,102. Neuerthelesse he entreated wyth him by messengers, lamenting that the warres of so rich a prince as he was, should be forslowed for want of money.

Goldyng. Justine, fol. 35.

The consull for his part foreslowed not to come to hand. fight, the onely thing he sought for in threatning to give assault.-Holland. Livivs, p. 1119.

Then rise ye blessed flocks, and home apace,
Least night with stealing steppes do you foresloe,
And wett your tender lambes that by you trace.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. June. Maci. Now therefore if you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act v. sc. 8. Fore-slow no longer, make we hence amaine.

Shakespeare. 3 Part Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 3. The wondring Nereids, tho' they rais'd no storm, Foreslow'd her passage to behold her form; Some cry'd a Venus; some a Thetis past; But this was not so fair, nor that so chaste.

Dryden. To the Duchess on her Return.

FOR-SO'NGEN. Sung forth or out; and thus, exhausted, weary with singing.

There might men see many flockes
Of turtles and lauerockes,
Chelaundres fele sawe I there
That verie nigh forsongen were.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. FOR-SOOTH. Utterly sooth, entirely true, certainly true.

On the expression in B. Jonson, "A forsooth of the City," Mr. Gifford remarks, "By this petty oath, which was probably familiar to the merchants and tradesmen's wives, the city ladies are charac terised in many of our old dramas:"

Forsoth vengeance he fond, of Criste the grace he les
R. Brunne, p. 104.

If ghe louyden me, forsoothe, ghe schulden haue ioie, for I go to the fadir, for the fadir is grettere than I.

Wiclif. Jon, c. 14.

Tho' gan Sir Calidore him to aduise

Of his first quest, which he had long forlore, Asham'd to thinke, how he that enterprise, The which the Faery Queene had long afore Bequeath'd to him, forslacked had so sore.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 12.

Gainst whom Sir Artegall, long hauing since
Taken in hand th' exploit, beeing theretoo
Appointed by that mighty Feary Prince,
Great Gloriane, that tyrant to fordoo,
Through other great adventures hithertoo
Had it forslackt.
Id. Ib. b. v. c. 12.

Eudox. It is a great pittie, that so good an opportunity was omitted, and so happie an occasion fore-slacked, that might have beene the eternall good of the land.

FOR-SLOW, v. FORSLO'UTH. FORSLU'G, V.

Id. View of the State of Ireland.

For, i. e. forth, and Sleacian, sleacgian, tardare, pigrescere.

Utterly to slow or retard. (See FORSLACK.) Slack, slug, slow, in A. S. Slæc, sleac, slog, slaw, sleaw, slaw, are all the same past tense, and therefore past part. (differently pronounced and written) of the A. S. verb Šleacian, sleacgian, slacian, (a broad) tardare, remittere, relaxare, pigrescere. See Tooke, ii. 346.

ben his enemies.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

Can ye drynke of the cup that I shall drynke of? Can ye be baptised with the baptism that I shall be baptised wyth? They as yet lytle knowing their strength, but for the gredinesse that they had to obteine theyr peticion, they answere rashly rather than valiantly: yea forsouth can we. Udal. Matthew, c. 20. Carry not too much under-thought betwixt yourselfe and them, nor your city mannerly word (forsooth) use it not too often in any case; but plain, I, madam, and no, madam. B. Jonson. Poetaster, Act iv. sc. 1.

Ile never feare you, for being too witty,
You sip so like a forsooth of the city.-Id. The Penates.
But we, forsooth, must bear a Christian mind:
And fight, like boys, with one hand ty'd behind.
Dryden. Epilogue to the Duke of Guise.
Where the hot-brain'd youth,

Who the tiara at his pleasure tore
From kings of all the then discover'd globe,
And cry'd, forsooth, because his arm was hamper'd
And had not room enough to do its work?-Blair. Grave.

FOR-SPEAK. For, i.e. forth, and speak. (See FORSAY.) To speak forth, out or away from, against, (sc.) what has been spoken. And thus, as Mr Steevens says, the opposite to bespeak.

To forbid.

Thou hast forespoke my being in these warres;
And say'st it is not fit.

Shakespeare. Antony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 7.

FOR-SPEND. To spend forth, to spend utterly, extremely: and thus, as Mr. Steevens says, to waste, to exhaust.

War. Fore-spent with toile, as runners with a race, I lay me downe a little while to breath.

Shakespeare. 3 Pt. Hen. VI. Act ii. sc. 2.

After him, came spurring hard

A gentleman (almost fore-spent with speed)
That stopp'd by me to breath his bloodied horse.

Id. 2 Pt. Henry IV. Act i. sc. 1.

FOR-STRAUGHT. See DISTRAUGHT. Utterly straught or distraught; quite distracted.

But it were for an olde appalled wight

As ben thise wedded men, that lie and dare,

As in a fourme sitteth a wery hare,

Were al forstraught with houndes gret and smale. Chaucer. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,035.

Shee is my Goddess plaine,
And I her shepheard's swaine,
Albee forswonke and forswat I am.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. April. FOR-SWEAR. Į A. S. For-swarian; Dut. FORSWEARING. Ver-swæren, abjurare, to ab-jure; to swear out or away from. And thusTo abjure; to disavow, deny, refuse or renounce, upon oath.

To abjure, (sc.) the truth; and thus, to swear falsely, to be guilty of false swearing or perjury.

The first justice in benk Sir Thomas of Weland,
For falshed & for wrenk he forsuore the land.
R. Brunne, p. 246.
Herald this lond les, for he was forsuoren,
Leulyn brake the pes, his hede he lost therforn.-Id. p.289.

Lo, Demophon, Duke of Athenis
How he foreswore him falsely,
And traied Phillis wickedly.

Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i.

With that the hande of heuen smote,
In token of that he hath forswore
There he bothe his eyen lore,

Out of his head the same stounde

Thei stert, and so they were founde.-Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

Hasard is veray moder of lesinges,
And of deceite, and cursed forswearings.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,526.

How many thousandes forsware themselves? how many thousandes set themselves aboue their habilitie, partly for feare lest they should be forsworne and partly to saue their credence.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 115.

Thys man I say beyng examined & long keping himself close from disclosyng of the matter, & more ready to go straighte to ye Deuil we lyenge & false forswering, the to be aknowe of hys euyll demeanure and confesse the trouthe. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 262. Where well near overwhelm'd with mountains of the dead, His force and fortune made the foes so much to fear, As they the land at last did utterly forswear.

Or say, that now

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 21.

We are not just those persons, which we were?
Or, that oaths, made in reverential fear
Of love and his wrath, any may forswear?

Donne. Woman's Constancy.
Tells of him all the tales it selfe then makes;
But, if it shall be question'd, undertakes,
It will deny all; and foresweare it too.

B. Jonson, Epig. 115. Here I forswear my merry piping trade : My little pipe, of seven reeds ymade, (Ah pleasing pipe!) I'll hang upon this bough: Thou Chame, and Chamish nymphs, bear witness of my

I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing.

Milton. Reason of Church Government, b. ii. Introd.

I, too, have sworn, ev'n at the altar sworn
Eternal love and endless faith to Theseus;
And yet am false: forsworn; the hollow shrine
That heard me swear, is witness to my falsehood.
Smith. Phædra & Hippolitus, Act iv.

Besides, how insincere you are!
Do ye not flatter, lie, forswear,
And daily cheat, and weekly pray,
And all for this,-to lead the way.

Shenstone. The Charms of Precedence.

FOR-SWONK. Swonk, past part. of swink, to labour or swink utterly, extremely. See FORSWAT, and the quotation there.

To liue the more in sikerness

Do make a mon a fortresse.-Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
My mother is of great prowesse,
She hath tane many a fortresse

That cost hath many a pound er this.-Id. Ib.

And by that, whyche I can lerne, they haue determyned for to assaulte oure rampares and fortes all at one instante, as well by sea as by lāde.-Nicolls. Thucidides, fol. 178.

Their temple and cite Jerusalem were builded pleasantly vpon that holy highe mount of Sion, well fortreced and turretted.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 12.

Hee willed him besides to choose out a place vppon the brinke of Tanais, wher as he might build a citie, to remaine as a fortres for the subduing of those people that he intended to visit. Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 191.

Sir Bereas de la Laude, and other, with their companyes departed fro Rochell, to the nombre of foure hundred speares, and toke the way to Subyze, for ther were certayne Bretons that helde churches and small forteresses, and had fortifyed them.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 301. Whoso hath seen young lads (to sport themselves) Run in a lowe ebbe to the sandy shelves: Where seriously they work in digging welles, Or building childish forts of cockle shells.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. i. s. 5. It deserues with characters of brasse A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of obliuion.

Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act v. sc. 1. Honour and beauty, in the owner's arms Are weakly fortress'd from a world of harms.

Id. The Rape of Lucrece. What way could we, fraile fortresses, defend, Against Hell's lord with legions bent for ill, Who even in Heaven so proudly durst contend, Whilst flying armies shining fields did fill.

Stirling. Domes-day. The Tenth Houre. Goe, goe, presently Draw me out an hundred and fifty of our horse, And meet me at the fort-bridge.

Webster. The Duchesse of Malfy, Act iii. sc. 3.

The next dispatch to him has a particular account of two persons whom the King of France had corrupted to betray one of their forts to him.-Burnet. Hist. of Ref. an. 1547. Whilst meagre Pthisis gives a silent blow, Her strokes are sure, but her advances slow: No loud alarms, nor fierce assaults are shown; She starves the fortress first, then takes the town. Garth. The Dispensary.

This statute, (13 Car. II.,) it is obvious to observe, extends not only to fleets and armies, but also to forts, and other places of strength, within the realm; the sole prerogative as well as of erecting, as manning and governing of which, belongs to the King in his capacity of general of the kingdom. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7.

Catiline was disappointed likewise in another affair, of no less moment, before he quitted the city; a design to surprise the town of Præneste, one of the strongest fortresses of Italy, within twenty-five miles of Rome.

Middleton. Life of Cicero, vol. i. s. 3.
Ger.

By Vulcan, you're forsworn, Except my mind do alter strangely.

fuore, fuori; and the Fr. Fors. And of the Fors, our ancestors (by their favourite pronunc tion of th) made forth, (Div. of Purley, i. 331,49 See FOR, in Composition.

Fore, in the passage from Chaucer, (Rom, of Rose,) Tooke interprets, Fors, forth. Mr. T whitt considers it to be the past part. of Fur A. S. Far-an, to go. Forth, is

Out, away from; through, thoroughly; out a direct course, straight on, onward.

Forth-with is with-out, (sc.) delay, loss of tin Vox sanè elegantissima, in the opinion of Skinn Forth is used before many words, to which might with equal propriety be subjoined. forthbring, i.e. bring forth or out. Some examp are subjoined.

Yburied it was forth with him, as in tokenynge
Of ys prowes, that he yt wan of on so hey a kynge.
R. Gloucester, P

That lond folk eode forth, and togedere drowe.-Id. p.
Ne that he ne kepte bute hire one, withoute other thir
That heo mygte som eyres [heirs] bitwene hem fa
brynge.
Id. p. 52.

Kyng Philip did also, his baner was forth laid,
& right it felle therto, for no man him withsaid.
R. Brasse, p.

Loke out of lond thou be not fore, And if such cause thou haue, that the Behoueth to be gone out of countre Leaue hole thine hert in hostage.-Chaucer. R. of the On the left side, mo divels than any herte may thinke to hary and drawe the sinful soules to the pitte of be and within the hertes of folk shal be the biting cos and without forth shal be the world all brenning, Id. The Persone T

An homicide therto han they hired,
That in an aleye had a privee place,
And as the child gan forthby for to pace,
This cursed Jew him hent, and held him fast,
And cut his throate, and in a pit him cast.
Id. The Prioresses Taie, v. 15.

She freyneth, and she praieth pitously
To every Jew that dwelled in thilke place.
To telle hire, if hire child went ought forthby.
Id. Ib. v. 11.5

Unto his brother's bed he comen is,
And swiche comforte he yaf him, for to gon
To Orleaunce, that he up stert anon,
And on his way forth-ward than is he fare,
In hope for to ben lissed of his care.

Id. Drea

Id. The Frankeleines Tak, v. 11.4 For why the queen forthwith her leue Toke at them all that were present. Than ech of us toke other by the sleue And forthwithall, as we should take our leve. Id. The Assemblie of Les Benethe foorthe amonge vs here All stante alike in this matere.-Gower. Con. 4. Pr And forthwithall,

Or any man therof beware,

A naked swerde the which she bare
Within hir mantell priuely,

Betweene hir hondes sodeinly

She took, and through hir hert it thronge.-Id. Ib. b

And he fedeth the weake with milke, that afterward might bring foorth strog meatte the, whan they wait more stregth.-Udal. Matt. c. 4.

Saint Kentigerne Byshop of Glasghon, (that ye nowe S. Asses or Asaphes,) had in lyke case a fayre maice to forthe-brynger, but farther would she graunt none to for no compulsion.-Bale. English Votaries, pt. i.

Would this pacifier aduise the ordinarie thus, or ele keepe hym in pryso where he should doe no hurte, and the walles and the lokkes be hys suertyes for hys for coming. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 888.

It was nere vnto the feast of Mary Magdaleyn or people were all assembled, at whiche season he set f ward to the town of Caleis, to remoue the Kyng of Engi from that siege.-Fabyan, an. 1357.

Yf any of these begyn to spryng in the mynde, far it must be cut up, for so the yll that begynneth to spo shall be the more easelye and safely taken away.

Udal. Matthee, C

In time to come thou shalte see more apparannt whereby thyne opinion of me maye encrease. And for withall Jesus turned him to his other disciples. Id. Jahn.c

As stubborne steed, that is with curb restrained,
Becomes more fierce and feruent in his gate.
And breaking forth at last, thus dearnly plained.
Spenser. Deputi

Order therefore was given by the state and the same observed from time to time, that the sextons or wardens of the taid chappell should purfourme the safetie and forth-comming of it [a dog in brass] under paine of death.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiv. c. 7. Thence forward he him led, and shortly brought Vnto another roome, whose door forth-right To him did open, as it had been taught.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 7.

For emulation hath a thousand sonnes,
That one by one pursue; if you giue way,
Or hedge aside from the direct forth-right;
Like to an entred tyde, they all rush by,
And leaue you hindmost.

Shakespeare. Troil. & Cress. Act iii. sc. 3.

So pond'ring, and from his armed peers
Forth-stepping opposite, half way he met
His daring foe.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi.
But Terpine, borne to a more unhappy howre,
As he on whom the lucklesse starres did lowre,
She caused to be attacht, and forthwith led

Vnto the crooke, t' abide the balefull stowre,
From which he lately had through reskew fled.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 5.

It was replied, that the King looked for no other answer om them; but would forthwith send his owne ambassadors the French king.-Bacon. Henry VII. p. 93.

You should have added the other words by me cited, των τελεία και απαύγασμα του πατρος, the perfect image id shining forth of the Father.

Waterland. Works, vol. iii. p. 49.

A swift old age o'er all his members spread;
A sudden frost was sprinkled on his head,
No longer on the heavy eyeball shin'd
The glance divine, forth-beaming from the mind.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv.
Sometimes in hand the spade or plough he caught,
Forth-calling all with which boon earth is fraught.

Thomson. The Castle of Indolence, c. 2.

And October the 24th, [1551,] it was ordered, that he [Walave] should be moved out of the Tower by the lieutenant some honest house, where he might be better looked to, the curing of his quartan ague: remaining still as a priner, and to be forth-coming whensoever he should be called -Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1551.

Forth issuing thus, she gave him first to wield

A weighty ax with truest temper steel'd,
And double edged.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. v.

Besides the filthy swine will oft invade
Thy firm enclosure, and with delving snout
The rooted forest undermine: forthwith
Halloo thy furious mastiff.

J. Philips. Cider, b. i.

On the contrary, he was forth-coming, to answer the call, satisfy the scrutiny, and to sustain the brow-beating of rist's angry and powerful enemies.

Paley. Evidences, vol. i. c. 1. Prop. 2.

Pir'd with his tragic tale, the indignant crowd
To guard his steps, forthwith a menial band,
Array'd beneath his eye for deeds of war,
Decree.

Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b. ii.

FORTHINK. A. S. For-thancan; perperam gitare de, (Lye.) To think wrong or rashly cerning (any thing.) And Skinner, molestas gitationes habere, to have troublesome thoughts; d thus, dolere, to grieve.

To grieve, to vex, to regret or be sorry for. And he answeride and seide I nyle, but afterward he foraghte and went forth.-Wiclif. Matt. c. 21.

That me forthinketh, quad this January.

Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9780.

fjelousie the soth knew hou shalt forthinke, and sore rue.-Id. Rom. of the R.

and least it grieved or forthought

The Lord that thilke garden wrought.

Anone he thinketh

f his misdede, and it forthinketh

o greatly, that for pure sorowe

Id. Ib.

le liueth not til on the morowe.-Gower. Con. A. b. iii.

And lest any shoulde so doe, John came before to prepare dispose all men by his carnall baptism, to the spirituall tisme of Christ: to cause them by exhorting, and making m afrayde, to for think and hate theyr former life.

Udal. Mark, c. 1. Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine: But soon he gan such folly to forthinke again. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 12.

To strengthen, to defend, to confirm, to assure, to enforce or encourage.

Now I wol and dare boldly Assaile my purpose, with scriptures autentike My werke woll I ground, vnderset, & fortifie. Chaucer. The Remedie of Loue. Bachu is from Bildih, the place where they road, about a day's journey, on foote easily to be trauelled, which may be sixe leagues the next way ouer land: it is a walled towne, and strongly fortified.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 422.

The King of Scithia, whose empire was then beyond the riuer of Tanais, iudgyng that the fortifying vppon the riuer's side, shoulde bee as a yoke to his necke, sent his brother Carcasis wyth a greate power of horsemen to defeat the fortificacion, and to remove away the Macedons from the water's syde.-Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 192.

Fortitude is a considerate hassarding vpon daunger, and a willing heart to take paines, in behalfe of the right. Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 35.

In vain with terror is he fortified,
That is not guarded with firm love beside.

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. i.

But the Samnites on the other side, so much the more

fiercely skirmished on horseback about the fortifications, and never gave them rest.-Holland. Livivs, p. 329.

It should seeme the fortifier [of Pendennis] made his aduantage of the commoditie affoorded by the ground. Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, p. 149.

I thought that fortitude had been a meane
"Twixt feare and rashness: not a lust obscene
Or appetite of offending; but a skill,
Or science of discerning good and ill.

B. Jonson. To Sir Edw. Sackville.

For this great fortitude and resolution of his [Cocles] the citie was thankful, and in token thereof his image or statue was set vp in the common hall, named Comilium, and as much ground given him in compasse, as he was able with a plough to break up in one day.-Holland. Livivs, p. 50. When Interest fortifies an argument, Weak Reason serves to gain the Will's assent; For souls, already warp'd, receive an easy bent. Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. Whereas the French were practising in Ireland, Sir James Crofts, a good soldier, was sent thither in February, to look after the condition of that kingdom, especially the havens, to prevent any invasion, and to begin some good fortifications.-Strype. Memorials. Edw. IV. an. 1550.

And it is true, that in the severe notions of our faith, the fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, and suffering, for the love of God, whatever hardships can befal in the world.-Dryden. Dedication to Juvenal.

Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.-Gibbon. Life.

During that period this John Stone published a book on etched by himself but without his name. fortification, called Enchiridion, with many small cuts

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. 1. Fortitude expresses that firmness of mind, which resists dangers and sufferings. Cogan. On the Passions, vol. i. c. 2. s. 3.

FORTILAGE. A little fort, (qv.)

In all straights and narrow passages, as between 2 boggs, or through any deep foord, or under any mountain side, there should be some little fortilage, or wooden castle set, which should keepe and command that straight, whereby any rebells that should come into the country might be stopped that way, or passe with great perill. Spenser. View of the State of Ireland. A. S. Feowertene; four, and Fourteen nights.

FORTNIGHT. ten, and niht, night.

Left

Had you but five pound

you in all the world, I'd undertake Within one fortnight you should see five thousand. Cartwright. The Ordinary, Act ii. sc. 2. About a fortnight after this, Gardner wrote another letter to the King, which will be found in the collection. Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1529. But you to all your friends are partial: You reckon another Martial. He'd think a fortnight well bestow'd To write an epigram or ode.-Cambridge. The Intruder. FOR-TRO'DDEN. For, i. e. forth, and trod

den.

Utterly trodden; or. as Mr. Tyrwhitt says, trodden down.

Honour is also cleped great dignitee and highnesse; but in helle shal they be alle fortroden of divels. Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

& vertue nis not all onely wythout meedes, but it is cast down, & eke fortrodden vnder the fete.-Id. Boecius, b. iv.

FORTUIT. FORTUITOUS.

FORTUITOUSLY.

FORTUITOUSNESS. FORTUITY.

From forte, (Vossius.) Fr. Fortuit; It. and Sp. Fortuito; Lat. Fortuitus; fors a ferendo ; est enim fors, prout res fert, as See FORTUNE. Happening, falling out, or coming to pass, (sc.) without the guidance or direction of an intelligent cause; casual, accidental.

things happen or fall out.

These been then the causes, of the abredgyng of fortuit hap, ye which abredgyng of fortuit hap commeth of causes of encountryng, and flowyng togyther to himselfe, and not by the entencion of the doer.-Chaucer. Boecius, b. v.

That though the coalition of those semina were casual, and by an accidental or fortuitous aggregation of some atoms; yet these were the immediate, primitive, productive principles of men, animals, birds, and fishes, and that determined them in their several species.

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 257.

But what do these Theists here else, then whilst they deny the fortuitous motion of senseless matter, to be the first original of all things, themselves in the mean time, enthrone fortuitousness and contingency, in the will of an omnipotent being, and there give it an absolute sovereignty and dominion over all.-Cudworth. Intellect. System, p. 873.

I cannot think that the branded Epicurus, Lucretius and their fellows were in earnest, when they resolv'd this composition into a fortuitous range of atoms.-Glanvill, Ess. 1.

The old stale pretence of the Atheists, that things were first made fortuitously, and afterwards their usefulness was observed or discovered, can have no place here.

Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. p. 416.

The only question, which the adversaries to Providence have to answer is, how they can be sure, that those deserved judgmentes were the effect of mere fortuity, without the least intervention on the part of the Lord of the universe? Forbes. On Incredulity, p. 79.

As chance is the operator assigned in a fortuitous concourse of atoms, we would know, what this chance, this wise and ingenious artist, is-is it substance? No, that is not pretended. Matter? Nor that. Quality of matter? Nor that neither. What neither subject nor attribute? Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. ii. Note.

Nor have we the less range of action for the secret springs of events taking their certain course by the divine appointment, neither would our liberty be at all enlarged if they were set in motion by the fortuitous declination of Epicurus's atoms. Search. Light of Nature, vol. ii. p. iii. c. 26.

Nothing befals them fortuitously, nothing happens in vain, or without a meaning; but every event possesses its proper and destined place, and forms a link in that great chain of causes which is appointed to carry on their improvement and felicity.-Blair, vol. v. Ser. 5.

FORTUNE, v. FORTUNE, n. FORTUNED, FORTUNATE. FORTUNATELY. FORTUNATENESS. FORTUNELESS. FORTUNABLE.

Fr. Fortune, fortuner; It. and Sp. Fortuna; Lat. Fortuna, anciently forctuna, from fortis or fortus, anciently forctis or forctus. Fortuna Kupiws, bona notat prius dicebant,Fors forctuna, i. e. fors FO'RTUNIZE. bona; postea draws dixere FORTUNOUS. fortuna; [sed καταχρησTIXOS tum extensa significatio, ut et de adverso eventu usurparetur.] (Vossius.) And thus it appears, that fortuna from fortis. strong, and so far good, was originally used adjectively with fors, denoting, good hap, good luck; then simply, hap

or luck: see FORTUIT.

Good hap, good luck; any hap or luck; suc

We are simple men, we do not know what's brought to charmes, by spels, by th' figure, and such dawbry as this is, beyond our element wee know nothing.

FOR-WANDERED. Wandered out, utterly,

success to.

Ac er this fortune by fulle fynde me shal the worste.
Piers Plouhman, p. 62.
Wel coude he fortunen the ascendent
Of his images for his patient.-Chaucer. Prologue, v. 419.

Thou hast in every regne and every lond
Of armes all the bridel in thin hond,
And hem fortunest as thee list devise.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2379.

'Alas, why plainen men so in commune
Of purveyance of God, or of fortune,
That yeveth hem ful oft in many a gise
Wel better than they can hemself devise ?-Id. Ib. v.1254.

And the contrary is joye and gret solas,
As whan a man hath ben in poure estat,
And climbeth up and waxeth fortunat,
And ther abideth in prosperitee.

Id. The Nonnes Preesies Prologue, v. 1482.

If the forme of this worlde is so selde stable, that if it turneth by so many enterchaunges, wilt thou than trusten in the tombling fortunes of men.-Id. Boecius, b. ii.

Right as a manne delfe the earth, bicause of tilling of the field, and found there a goblet of gold bedoluen, then wenen folke, that it is befall by fortunous betidyng.-Id. Ib.

A thousande tyme with one breath
Wepende he wissheth after deth,
Whan he fortune fynt aduerse.

Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

Euen so vnbelefe onely damneth and keepeth out the spirit, prouoketh the flesh, and styrreth vp lust vnto the euill outward works, as it fortuned to Adam and Eue in Paradice.-Tyndal. Works, p. 41.

For wel wote I that oure Lord geueth in thys worlde vnto eyther sort of folk, either sort of fortune. He maketh hys sunne to shyne both vppon the good and the bad, and hys rayne both on the iust and on the uniust.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1157. The Lord lyueth: in truth, in equite & righteousnesse : and al people shall bee fortunable and ioyfull in him. Bible, 1551. Jeremye, c. 4.

And then was crowned with a crowne royall at the palaice of Westminster, beside Lodon, the yong Kyng Edward the III., who in his dayes after was right fortunate, and happy in armes.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 14.

After this victorye fortunately obteined, the Duke of Bedforde sailed by water vp to the very towne of Harflew, and without let or impediment landed and refreshed it both with vitaile and money.-Hall. Hen. V. an. 4.

For first, with words, nearer admiration than liking, she would extol his excellencies, the goodlinesse of his shape, the power of his wit, the valiantness of his courage, the fortunateness of his successes.-Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii.

It fortuned, that in the house of P. Sestius, a nobleman, there was a dead bodie found buried, and brought forth openly into the publicke assemblie of the people. Holland. Livivs, p. 110. Whereupon, if it fortuned that a child having been chastised by another man, went to complain thereof to his own father; it was a shame for the said father, if he gave him not his payment again.-Id. Plutarch, p. 392.

Fortune (the foe of famous cheuisaunce)
Seldome (said Guyon) yeelds to vertue ayde,
But in her way throws mischiefe and mischaunce,
Whereby her course is stopt, and passage staid.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 9.

So happy are they, and so fortunate,
Whom the Pierian sacred sisters loue,
That freed from bands of implacable fate,
And powre of death, they liue for aye aboue,
Where mortall wreakes their blis may not remoue.
Id. Ruines of Time, s. 57.
The battle then at Stoke so fortunately struck,
Upon King Henry's part, with so successful luck,
As never till that day he felt his crown to cleave,
Unto his temples close. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22.

For wisedome is most riches; fools therefore
They are, which fortunes do by vowes deuise
Sith each vnto himselfe his life may fortunize.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 9.

For to waxe olde at home in idlenesse, Is disaduentrous, and quite fortuneless.

Id. Mother Hubberd's Tale.

The councell of Ancyra, or Engury, canon 21, exposeth all Christians to fiue yeeres penance, who shall obserue any prophecies, dreames, diuinations, or fortune-tellers after the customes of the Gentiles, or should entertaine such diviners or soothsayers in their houses. Prynne. Histrio-Mastix, pt. i. Act i. sc. 2.

Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iv. sc. 2. The very next parliament after the marriage, that sat in November 1554, it was enacted that such as imagined or spoke any seditious or scandalous news, rumours, sayings, or tales of the King or the Queen, should be set upon the pillory, if it fortuned to be said without any city or town corporate; but if within any city or towne corporate, then to have both ears cut off, unless he paid £100. to the King within a month."-Strype. Memorials. Q. Mary, an. 1554. Fortune fortun'd the dying notes of Rome: Till I, thy consul sole, consol'd thy doom. Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 10. Fortune a Goddess is to fools alone, The wise are always masters of their own. John Dryden, Jun. Ib. Sat. 14. Godolphin, wise and just, Equal in merit, honour, and success To Burleigh (fortunate alike to serve The best of Queens.)

To werie forwandred tent and pauilion.

Chaucer. A Balade of our Ladie

And being thus alone, and all forsake,
Amid the thicke, forwandred in despaire
As one dismaid, nay wist what way to take.

Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 447.

His armes, which he had vowed to disprofesse, She gather'd up and did about him dresse, And his forwandred steed unto him gott.

FOR-WARD, v. FORWARD, n. FO'RWARD, adj. FO'RWARD, ad. FORWARDER.

FO'RWARDLY.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c.

J. Philips. Blenheim.

These Adam-wits, too fortunately free, Began to dream they wanted liberty.

This sacred truth print deeply on thy mind; Fortune and Fortune's votaries are blind.

Fawkes. Fortune Blind.

As Sylla was sacrificing before his tent in the fields of Nola, a snake happened to creep out of the bottom of the altar; upon which Postumius the haruspex, who attended the sacrifice, proclaiming it to be a fortunate omen, called out upon him to lead his army immediately against the enemy. Middleton. Life of Cicero, vol. i. s. 1.

And when, fortunately for their preservation, they [Paul, &c.] were not found at home, the master of the house was dragged before the magistrate for admitting them within his doors.-Paley. Evidences, vol. i. pt. i. Prop. 1. c. 4. Four times ten. This was euene forty ger, that he hadde this dom, Aftur that he mid his fole to this lond com. R. Gloucester, p. 142. In the ger of grace a thousend, & on & fourty, the gere, Thys kyng deyde in Aueryl, mony glad man was there. Id. p. 325.

FORTY. Four, and ten.

Sire, at O word, if that you list it have,
Ye shal pay fourty pound, so God me save.
Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale, v. 16,829.
Our Swithun then ensues, of him why ours I say,
Is that upon his feast, his dedicated day,

As it in harvest haps, so ploughmen note thereby,
Th' ensuing forty days be either wet or dry,
As that day falleth out.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 24.

I said, "If any title be

Convey'd by this, ah! what doth it avail

To be the fortieth man in an entail."-Donne. Love's Diet. You have of mine, four Odes of Horace, which I have already translated, another small translation of forty lines from Lucretius, and the whole story of Nisus and Eurialus. Dryden. Letter to Mr. Tonson.

This collection, after Sir Peter's [Lely] death was sold by auction, which lasted forty days, and produced 26,0007.

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1.

FORUM. Lat. Forum. Varro maintains, à ferendo, because people brought into it their suits for determination or their goods for sale; or from foras, because it was in the open air.

RENSICK.

See Fo

Thus they convers'd on works of ancient fame,
Till to the monarch's humble court they came.
There oxen stall'd, where palaces are rais'd,
And bellowing herds in the proud forum graz'd.
Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. viii.
Rienzi! last of Romans! While the tree
Of freedom's wither'd trunk puts forth a leaf,
Even for thy tomb a garland let it be,

The forum's champion, and the people's chief-
Her new-born Numa thou, with reign, alas! too brief.
Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, c. 4.
FOR-WAKE, v. To wake utterly, thoroughly.
Wery, forwaked in hire orisons,
Slepeth Custance, and Hermegilde also.

Chaucer. The Man of Lawes Tale, v. 5016. With that word she hung downe the head And fell in a swoune as colde as stone Her women caught her vp anone, And brought her in bed all naked And she forweped and forwaked.-Id. Dreame.

He was forwepte, he was forwaked,

He kiste hir cold lippes ofte,

And wissheth, that thei were softe.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

FORWARDNESS.

FORWARDS.

Quick, hasty, eager, ardent; coming on or a vancing quickly; early; premature.

For in all extremeties they shewed themselves the redes & the most forwarde: whyles they coueted to redeme te reproche, their valyaunte doinges could not be hidden is s small a number seperate by themselues.

Brende. Quintus Curtius, fol. 17

And John de Medices whiche led the forward, shot gonnes at a tower to haue ouerthrowen the same, and 10% haue entered in by the waie.-Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 19.

And it is matter worthy to be noted, because Game obseruacion writen in the Acts of the Apostles, is 2 to marke, howe they prosper and go forward in their trine that be auctors of any new teachyng.

Bp. Gardner. Explicaties, f And it is also an aunciaunte practice of the father of the Pope's malignaunt churche (that most diligent preachyt prelate doctour deuyll) whan he can not get him d disciples ynowe to satisfie his greedy luste through perye, by reason of the cleare lyght and powre of the G shynyng forth, to take vpon him to be a fyne foreworden the Ghospel's libertie.-Udal. Prologue to Ephesians.

The other is a forwardnesse in any thing, gotten by labe and trauile, not geuen by nature's goodnesse: or else call it, the half atteining of that, which we go about haue, wanting perfection, for lacke of full time, and is t in Latine dispositio.-Wilson. Arte of Logike, fol. le

Then let me heare

Of you my gentle cousin Westmorland,
What yesternight our councill did decree,
In forwarding this deere experience.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Actise
But Mortimer his foot had scarcely set
Into the road where fortune had to deal,
But she, disposed his forward course to let,
Her lewd condition quickly doth reveal.

Drayton. The Barons' Wart,
And as they forward went,
Thei spide a knight faire pricking on the plaine,
As if he were on some adventure bent,
And in his port appeared manly hardiment.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. I. c.
Nor am I accessary,
Part, or party confederate, abetter,
Helper, seconder, persuader, forwarder,
Principal or maintainer of this late theft.

Barry. Ram Alley, Actv. S
For now the rebel thus forlorn, grows strong,
Both in his reputation and success;
For having with his pow'r held out so long,
Many adventure with more forwardness,
To yield him aid, and to support his wrong.

Daniel. Civil War, b All sounds (whatsoever) move round; that is to say,all sides, upwards, forwards, and backwards. Bacon. Naturall Historit, & Quite from his chariot's head, He strooke him with a lance to earth, as first he addrest;

It took his forward-turned backe, and lookt out of