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forcasten

forcasten adjective: felled, fallen.

Adjective

forcasten (comparative more forcasten, superlative most forcasten)

  1. (obsolete) Felled, fallen.
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
    • I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.1891, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford
  3. (Scotland, dialectal) Abandoned; forlorn.
    • They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.1976, David Craig, Scottish literature and the Scottish people

Forms of forcasten

comparativemore forcasten
superlativemost forcasten

Origin of forcasten

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.

Questions about forcasten

What does forcasten mean?
Forcasten means felled, fallen.
What part of speech is forcasten?
Forcasten is an adjective.

Words near forcasten in the dictionary

  1. forcarved
  2. forcarves
  3. forcarving
  4. forcast
  5. forcasted
  6. forcasten
  7. forcasting
  8. forcasts
  9. forcause
  10. force
  11. force de frappe

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