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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
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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