forthink

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Verb

forthink (forthinks, present participle forthinking; past and past participle forthought)

1. (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:4.3?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter iij], in Le Morte Darthur, book II:

     with hys swerd lyghtly he smote of hir hede before kynge Arthur / allas for shame sayd Arthur why haue ye done so / ye haue shamed me and al my Courte / for this was a lady that I was be holden to / and hyther she came vnder my sauf conduyte / I shalle neuer foryeue you that trespas / Sir said Balen me forthynketh of your displeasyr / for this same lady was the vntruest lady lyuynge

2. (reflexive, obsolete) To regret; repent.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To regret.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:19.15?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xv], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     So cam he to the chamber dore / and wold haue entryd / And anone a voyce said to hym / Flee launcelot / and entre not / for thou oughtest not to doo hit / And yf thou entre / thou shalt forthynke hit / Thenne he withdrewe hym abak ryght heuy

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To repent, be sorry for.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To change one's mind about; to renounce.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.12:

     Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.

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