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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fordo .
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Examples
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Also Merlin let make there a bed, that there should never man lie therein but he went out of his wit, yet Launcelot de Lake fordid that bed through his noblesse.
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Also Merlin let make there a bed, that there should never man lie therein but he went out of his wit, yet Launcelot de Lake fordid that bed through his noblesse.
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Goneril would have met it; nor, if her father had been already dead, would there have been any great improbability in the false story that was to be told of her death, that, like Goneril, she 'fordid herself.'
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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They wallow in those fordid Lusts which they enjoy in common with the Beasts that perish, and despise the Dignity and Blessedness of the Angels of Light.
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And ah foolifh and ungrateful creatures, that form excufes to keep them off from his fervice, and that prefer their fwine, their fordid gains and traffic, to him 1 How worthy is he of our Faith and love, adoration and obedience!
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The former, namely, covetoufnefs, is a very mean and fordid palTion — refllefs, im - patient — and never contented With its A a prefent
Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796
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Forgetful of Jkand forgot By the fordid, the proud, and the vain;
Poetic effusions; pastoral, moral, amatory, and descriptive Perfect, William, 1737-1809 1796
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Nor as a merchant did I plow the main To venture life, like fordid fools, for gain.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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Should underftand how ill that fordid place Suits with the beauty of your charming face;
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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Throw fordid felf out of your mind, if you think of being truly great in fpirit«
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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