fordone

[ fawr-duhn ]

adjectiveArchaic.

Origin of fordone

First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo

He moaned again, but so hopelessly, as being so weary and fordone, that Abbot Milo began to blubber out loud.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay | Maurice Hewlett
Many of the men wore out before dawn and were fordone: hands frozen, feet frozen, lips and throat frozen—heart frozen.
Billy Topsail, M.D. | Norman Duncan
Two days he battled thus with storm and blindness, and wanhope of his life; for he was growing weak and fordone.
The Wood Beyond the World | William Morris
His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) | Elbert Hubbard
He came across them as they fared slowly down the bent, looking weary and fordone.
The Sundering Flood | William Morris

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