forcasten

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Felled, fallen. obsolete
  2. Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off. UK,archaic,dialectal
    — I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.
  3. Abandoned; forlorn. Scotland,dialectal
    — They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.

词形变化

more forcasten comparative most forcasten superlative

词源

Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast (“rejected, cast away”), past participle of forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”), equivalent to for- + cast.
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