Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forcasten

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: for-cas-ten
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Felled, fallen.

Obsolete

adj

Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.

British usage; Archaic

adj

Abandoned; forlorn.

Example Sentences

"I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him."
"They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company."

Etymology

Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast (“rejected, cast away”), past participle of forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”), equivalent to for- + cast.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: for
Root: forcasten

Usage

Inflected Forms

more forcasten (comparative) most forcasten (superlative)

Questions

What does forcasten mean?: Felled, fallen.
Where does forcasten come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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