forsay
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English forsayen (“to renounce”), from Old English forseċġan (“to accuse, accuse falsely, slander, speak about, discourse on”), equivalent to for- + say. Cognate Dutch verzeggen (“to deny, forbid”), German Low German verseggen (“to refuse, deny”), German versagen (“to refuse, deny”), Swedish försäga (“to misspeak, say too much”). More at for-, say.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]forsay (third-person singular simple present forsays, present participle forsaying, simple past and past participle forsaid)
- (archaic) to forbid; to renounce
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- worldly sovenance he must forsay
- (archaic) to deny, gainsay
- (archaic) to forsake
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