forthink

present singular third person forthinks · participle present forthinking · participle past forthought · past forthought

1. impersonalobsoletetransitiveTo cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.

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   with hys swerd lyghtly he smote of hir hede before kynge Arthur / allas for shame sayd Arthur why haue ye done so / ye haue shamed me and al my Courte / for this was a lady that I was be holden to / and hyther she came vnder my sauf conduyte / I shalle neuer foryeue you that trespas / Sir said Balen me forthynketh of your displeasyr / for this same lady was the vntruest lady lyuynge

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II

2. obsoletereflexiveTo regret; repent.
3. obsoletetransitiveTo regret.

   So cam he to the chamber dore / and wold haue entryd / And anone a voyce said to hym / Flee launcelot / and entre not / for thou oughtest not to doo hit / And yf thou entre / thou shalt forthynke hit / Thenne he withdrewe hym abak ryght heuy

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII

4. intransitiveobsoleteTo repent, be sorry for.
5. obsoletetransitiveTo change one's mind about; to renounce.

   Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC