forlivenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From for- +‎ liven. Cognate with German verleben (“to spend, spend time”).

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forliven (third-person singular simple present forliveth, present participle forlivende, forlivynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle forlived)

1. (intransitive) To age or become decrepit with age.
   • a. 1398, John Trevisa, transl. Bartholomeus Anglicus as De Proprietatibus Rerum (MS BL Add. 27944), Vol. I, p. 628:

     A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.

2. (intransitive) To degenerate.
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Typographical antiquities:

     Thanne nis ther non forlyved wyght or ongentil, but if he noryssche his corage unto vices.

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派生語

• forlived