Middle English Dictionary Entry
forlēven v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | forlēven v.(1) Forms: p. forlefte; ppl. forleft, -laft. |
| Etymology | From lēven leave. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To depart from (someone), to leave (someone) behind; (b) to abandon or desert (someone), to leave (a place) deserted or desolate; (c) to give up (a vice), to relinquish (property).
Associated quotations
a
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2497 : Þat tide werwolf..hadde þe prouost sone forleft.
- ?c1425 Chaucer Bo.(Cmb Ii.3.21)1.m.3.2 : When þat nyȝt was discussed and chased awey, derknesses forleften me.
b
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)27/282 : Ne forleaf þu me nawt.
- c1330 Why werre (Auch)373 : I drede me that God us hath forlaft out of his hond.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Hag.1.9 : Myn hous is desert or forleft.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)220a/a : Carduus..groweþ in forleft place.
- a1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)2 Cor.4.9 : We suffre persecucyoun, but we ben not forleft [L derelinquimur].
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 2.31 : Noþer was he forlefte [vr. left; L derelictus] in helle.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)23b : In a litil I forlefte þe.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.25.46 fn. : Forleue [L transmittetis; Corp-O: ȝe shulen ouerleeuen hem to the after comers].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Ph.(Manly-Rickert)C.83 : A theef of venysoun that hath forlaft His likerousnesse..Kan kepe a forest.