forcasten

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forcasten

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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.

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obsolete Felled, fallen.
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.
Scotland, dialectal Abandoned; forlorn. They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.

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@misc{forcasten_2026,
  title = {forcasten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forcasten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}