Definition of Forpine

1. v. t. To waste away completely by suffering or torment.

Definition of Forpine

1. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To pine away. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Forpine

1. to waste away [v FORPINED, FORPINING, FORPINES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forpine

fornix
fornix conjunctivae
fornix of the lacrimal sac
fornix pharyngis
fornix sacci lacrimalis
fornumb
forodesine
forold
forolded
forpamper
forpet
forpets
forpine (current term)
forpined
forpines
forpining
forpit
forpits
forprofit
forprofits
forrad
forrader
forrard
forrarder
forray
forrayed
forraying

Literary usage of Forpine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"forPine Arts. — Ste ARTS ; BIOGRAPHICAL. History. (See also BIOGRAPHICAL ; EDUCATION, LITERARY, RF. ..."

2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"But I which spend, the darke and dreadful night, In watch and ward, when those birds take their rest, forpine my selfe, that Louers might delight, ..."

3. Struggles and Triumphs, Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum: Or by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1871)
"John N. Genin, the hatter, laid the foundation of his forpine by purchasing, the first ticket at $225. ..."

4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"I. 862. forpine, to waste away. Gascoigne, Complaint of Philomene, 15 ; far- pined, wasted, Hall, Sat. v. 2. ..."

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