fordone
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fordone
First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo
Example Sentences
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His body fordone with age is by them considered to be full of the spirit of wisdom.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
There, once more, rose frightful struggle; desperate attempt by the fordone Prussians to retake that Height.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Thro' thousand ages hath thy childhood run: On timeless ruin hath thy glory been: From the forgotten night of loves fordone Thou risest in the dawn of hopes unseen.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
When Messire Gawain heareth these tidings, they touch his heart right sore, so that he goeth the straightest he may toward the assembly, and the squire with him that was sore fordone.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
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