Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To forbid; renounce.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to forbid
  • verb to renounce
  • verb to deny, gainsay
  • verb to forsake

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English forsayen ("to renounce"), from Old English forsecgan ("to accuse, accuse falsely, slander, speak about, discourse on"), equivalent to for- +‎ say. Cognate with German versagen ("to refuse, deny"), Swedish försäga ("to misspeak, say too much"). More at for-, say.

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