If you forsake the offer of their love.
Shak.
Syn. -- To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up; renounce;
reject. See Abandon.
For*sak"er (?), n. One who forsakes or deserts.
For*say" (?), v. t. [AS. forsecgan to accuse; pref. for- + secgan to
say.] To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny. [Obs.] Spenser.
For*shape" (?), v. t. [Pref. for- + shape, v.t.] To render misshapen.
[Obs.] Gower.
For*slack" (?), v. t. [Pref. for- + slack to neglect.] To neglect by
idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.
For*slouth"e (?), v. t. [See For- , and Slouth.] To lose by sloth or
negligence. [Obs.] Chaucer.
For*slow" (?), v. t. [Pref. for- + slow.] To delay; to hinder; to
neglect; to put off. [Obs.] Bacon.
For*slow", v. i. To loiter. [Obs.] Shak.
For*slug"ge (?), v. t. [See Slug to be idle.] To lsoe by idleness or
slotch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
For*sooth" (?), adv. [AS. fors; for, prep. + s sooth, truth. See For,
prep., and Sooth.] In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly
used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now
used ironically or contemptuously.
A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm!
Hayward.
Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French
madam.
Guardian.
For*sooth", v. t. To address respectfully with the term forsooth.
[Obs.]
The captain of the "Charles" had forsoothed her, though he knew her
well enough and she him.
Pepys.
For*sooth", n. A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and
deferential person. [R.]
You sip so like a forsooth of the city.
B. Jonson.
For*speak" (?), v. t. [Pref. for- + speak.] 1. To forbid; to prohibit.
Shak.