forcasten
adjEtymology 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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Obsolete Felled, fallen.
- I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.1891, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford: