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forcasten

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of forcasten

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Felled, fallen.
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Felled, fallen.
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal)Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
    “I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.”
  3. (Scotland, dialectal)Abandoned; forlorn.
    “They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.”

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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.

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