Middle English Dictionary Entry
forhouen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | forhouen v. Also forhoȝ(i)en, -hoh(i)en, -how(i)en & forhewe, -hu. Forms: impv. forhohe & forhuh; p. forhowede, -hoȝede, -hohede & forhugede, -hewed, -hued, -huud. |
| Etymology | OE forhogian, -hogode, & forhycgan, -hygede. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To despise or reject (something); disregard (a command), shun (a vice), avoid or depart from (a place); (b) to treat (someone) with contempt, to spurn or reject (someone); to abandon or desert (someone); (c) to scorn (to do something); --with infin. or obj. clause.
Associated quotations
a
- c1225 Body & S.(2) (Wor F.174)2/44 : Þet riche wif forhoweþ þene earueþsiþ.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3645 : Cristess þeowwess aȝȝ occ aȝȝ Forrhoȝhenn & forrwerrpenn All weorelldshipess fule lusst.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)13 : Ȝe..mine heste forȝemeð oðer forhoȝiet.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3495 : Ich mot bisecchen þat þing þat ich ær forhowede [Otho: foroȝede].
- a1250 Ancr.(Tit D.18:Morton)306 fn. : Forhoheden [Nero: ȝe uorbuwen minne dom].
- a1250 HMaid.(Tit D.18)23/238 : Flih alle thinges, and forhuh [Bod: forbuh] ȝeorne, þat tus unbotelich lure of mahe arisen.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)45a : Þes mone mot te wummon halden under hire uet, þet is, worldliche þinges totreoden & forhohien [Nero: forhowien].
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)52b : Ha..forhoheð [Nero: uorhoweð] chastiement oþer ei lahres lare.
- ?c1225 Ancr.(Cleo C.6:Morton)104 : Ne forhoȝe ich ham [odors] nocht.
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)24830 : Þanne most þou þolie þat þou her forhoȝedest.
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)12/4 : Þe seuen heued synnes or dedely synnes that ilk man augh for to knawe to fle and forhoue [Thrn: forhewe].
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)86/449 : Dedely synnes, That ilkman augh for to knawe to fle and forhoue [Wycl.LFCatech.: forsake].
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)19949 : Ne hope o nan he wil forhu þat wil traistili in him tru.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23047 : Þe formast rau sal stan him nere..þat sin and sak for him forhuud [Phys-E: forhuid].
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)159 : Sho forhewed Þe kynges presence and it eschewed.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)8258 : Saint dunstane he pursued, Whils he englande forhued.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3959 : Þatt griþþ wass sett..nohht till þa þatt sholldenn himm [Christ] Forrhoȝhenn & forrwerrpenn.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)19421 : His hæȝe men Lot al forhoȝeden [Otho: forhowede].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2577 : He forheowede [Otho: forowede] al his quene.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)123/17 : He ðane prest forhowede.
- a1250 HMaid.(Tit D.18)59/621 : He forhoheð [Bod: forheccheð] þe anan.
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)3171 : Ȝeo me forhoȝede [Clg: forhusce] and held me for wrecche.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3814 : He forhugede ðo.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)15107 : He wende he had forhuud [Göt: forhoud; Frf: forȝeten] vs all.
c
- c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)52/24 : Þa ðe her on life forhoȝiæð oððe forscamiæð þæt heo nellæþ reowsunge don.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6263 : He þurrh orrȝhellmod Forrhoȝheþþ þe to wurrþenn.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)29799 : Heo uorhoȝeden to halden hine for herre.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)34/353 : Forhohe forte don hit þet te þuncheð uuel of.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)992 : Hwi schulde he forhohien to wurðen to þet þing þet is iwend upon him?
- c1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)31565 : He forhoȝeþ foliwis for do þine hestes.