forlive
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English forlyven, equivalent to for- + live. Cognate with German verleben (“to spend, spend time”).
Verb
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- (intransitive) To live pervertedly.
- (intransitive) To outlive one's strength; become decrepit; degenerate in race or nature; become wretched.
- 1810, Joseph Ames, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Typographical antiquities:
- For if ye look your beginning, and God your father, author, and your maker, then is there none forlived wight or ungentle, but if he nourish his courage unto vices, and forelet his proper birth.
- 1810, Joseph Ames, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Typographical antiquities: