fordone
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fordone
First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo
Example Sentences
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Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
He was near fordone, poor man! but still entreatingly prayed, in sentences broken by consumptive spasms, for wisdom and faith and the fire of the Holy Ghost in this dire emergency.
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan
He moaned again, but so hopelessly, as being so weary and fordone, that Abbot Milo began to blubber out loud.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Also another gret armee and voiage fordone for defaut and lak of spedy payment this yere of Crist Gyen.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
Let bath be made For such men fordone, Wash thou hands and feet thereof, Comb their hair and dry them Ere the coffin has them; Then bid them sleep full sweetly.
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
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