Meanings
present singular third person forwanders · participle present forwandering · participle past forwandered · past forwandered
- UKdialectaltransitiveTo weary with wandering; cause to wander until weary.
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 Land1 more example
[…] 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
Origin
- Middle Englishforwandrien
- Englishforwander
From Middle English forwandrien, equivalent to for- + wander.
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