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- adjective obsolete
Worn out ,exhausted .
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Examples
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'forwearied', &c.; and the 'zer' or 'to', - 'zerreissen', to rend, &c.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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So when they had hoppled their horses, and left them to graze at their will on the sweet grass of the meadow, they laid them down behind the green toft, and, being forwearied, it was no long time ere they twain slept fast at the uttermost end of the world.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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And hereof both the torne ships, and the forwearied bodies of the men arriued doe beare most euident marke and witnesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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6 You all forwearied be: for what so strong, all forwearied be > [are worn out] 7 But, wanting rest, will also want of might? wanting > lacking
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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