forwander

verb — 2 senses

forwander

verb

Etymology From Middle English forwandrien, equivalent to for- + wander.

1

UK, Dialectal To wander until weary; wander far and wide.

  • Ah, I am full weary, lief, let me sleep, Forwandered and walked in this forest.2009, Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, York Mystery Plays:
2

UK, Dialectal To weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.

  • […] His courage, His purity, His meekness; His daily wakefulness to God's voice, the swiftness and brilliance of His speech for others, His silence under His own torments; His resorts—among the bruised, the prisoners, the forwandered of Israel, […]1897, Sir George Adam Smith, The book of Isaiah:
  • The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.1899, John Buchan, No Man's Land:

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