forslugt

t. [ME. for slug gen; IMG:content-1728.png:[blocks in formation] erly winde, somuch as the coastal theatrectly for song ent. Past participle of for sing. forsook (for-sük'). Preterit and occasional past participle of forsake. forsooth (for-söth'), adv . [ for soothe , for- so the, for so the , i. e., for truth, in truth: see for and sooth , n.] In truth; in fact; certainly; very well: now commonly used ironically. If ghe louyden me, for soothe , ghe schulden haue ioie, for I go to the fadir, for the fadir is grettere than I. Wyclif , John xiv. 28 (Oxf.). ffor so the , Thomas, yone es myn awenn [own], And the kynges of this countree. Thomas of Er eldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 105). This degree of anger pa es, forsooth , for a delicacy of judgment. Steele , Spectator, No. 438. [Being formerly common as an affected garnish of polite conversation, forsooth came to be regarded as noting a ladies' man, and was occasionally used, allusively, as a noun or a verb. I'll never fear you for being too witty, You sip so like a forsooth of the city. B. Jonson, The Penates. The captain of the Charles had for soothed her, though he knew her well enough, and she him. Pepys, Diary, Jan., 1661.]