See forcasten on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for forcasten meaning in All languages combined (6.8kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "forcast",
"3": "",
"4": "to cast away"
},
"expansion": "forcast (“to cast away”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "forcasten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English forcasten",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "forcast",
"3": "",
"4": "rejected, cast away"
},
"expansion": "forcast (“rejected, cast away”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "forcasten",
"3": "",
"4": "to cast away, reject"
},
"expansion": "forcasten (“to cast away, reject”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forkaste",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Danish forkaste (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förkasta",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förkasta (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "for",
"3": "cast"
},
"expansion": "for- + cast",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more forcasten",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most forcasten",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forcasten (comparative more forcasten, superlative most forcasten)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "35 32 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 39 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Felled, fallen."
],
"id": "en-forcasten-en-adj-xoSIGvkI",
"links": [
[
"Felled",
"felled"
],
[
"fallen",
"fallen"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Felled, fallen."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "35 32 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 39 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1891, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford",
"text": "I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off."
],
"id": "en-forcasten-en-adj-ahj3OL0I",
"links": [
[
"Cast away",
"cast away"
],
[
"reject",
"reject"
],
[
"neglect",
"neglect"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"cast off",
"cast off"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK dialectal) Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Scottish English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "35 32 32",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "25 39 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with for-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 18 32 1 6 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 15 35 1 2 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English terms prefixed with for-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, David Craig, Scottish literature and the Scottish people",
"text": "They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Abandoned; forlorn."
],
"id": "en-forcasten-en-adj-MJnsFaOF",
"links": [
[
"Abandon",
"abandon"
],
[
"forlorn",
"forlorn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Abandoned; forlorn."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"word": "forcasten"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "for",
"3": "casten",
"t2": "to throw, cast"
},
"expansion": "for- + casten (“to throw, cast”)",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forkaste",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Danish forkaste (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förkasta",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förkasta (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From for- + casten (“to throw, cast”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "forcasten",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to reject, cast away"
],
"id": "en-forcasten-enm-verb-ievfBZIc",
"links": [
[
"reject",
"reject"
],
[
"cast away",
"cast away"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Forms linking to themselves",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "forcasten"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative past participle of forcasten"
],
"id": "en-forcasten-enm-verb-1jF7sIQT",
"links": [
[
"forcasten",
"forcasten#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alternative",
"form-of",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"word": "forcasten"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "for",
"3": "casten",
"t2": "to throw, cast"
},
"expansion": "for- + casten (“to throw, cast”)",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forkaste",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Danish forkaste (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förkasta",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förkasta (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From for- + casten (“to throw, cast”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{1}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "{{{2}}}",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{3}}}",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "forcasten",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forcasten",
"name": "enm-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"neglected"
],
"id": "en-forcasten-enm-adj-0FqLQT1c",
"links": [
[
"neglected",
"neglected"
]
]
}
],
"word": "forcasten"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from North Germanic languages",
"English terms prefixed with for-",
"Middle English adjectives",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from North Germanic languages",
"Middle English terms prefixed with for-",
"Middle English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "forcast",
"3": "",
"4": "to cast away"
},
"expansion": "forcast (“to cast away”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "forcasten"
},
"expansion": "Middle English forcasten",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "forcast",
"3": "",
"4": "rejected, cast away"
},
"expansion": "forcast (“rejected, cast away”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "forcasten",
"3": "",
"4": "to cast away, reject"
},
"expansion": "forcasten (“to cast away, reject”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forkaste",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Danish forkaste (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förkasta",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förkasta (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "for",
"3": "cast"
},
"expansion": "for- + cast",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more forcasten",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most forcasten",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forcasten (comparative more forcasten, superlative most forcasten)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Felled, fallen."
],
"links": [
[
"Felled",
"felled"
],
[
"fallen",
"fallen"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Felled, fallen."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1891, Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford",
"text": "I think Christ lieth like an old forcasten castle, forsaken of the inhabitants; all men run away now from Him.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off."
],
"links": [
[
"Cast away",
"cast away"
],
[
"reject",
"reject"
],
[
"neglect",
"neglect"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"cast off",
"cast off"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, UK dialectal) Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"archaic",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1976, David Craig, Scottish literature and the Scottish people",
"text": "They dread full ill I was right poor, By my forcasten company.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Abandoned; forlorn."
],
"links": [
[
"Abandon",
"abandon"
],
[
"forlorn",
"forlorn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Abandoned; forlorn."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"word": "forcasten"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English adjectives",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from North Germanic languages",
"Middle English terms prefixed with for-",
"Middle English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "for",
"3": "casten",
"t2": "to throw, cast"
},
"expansion": "for- + casten (“to throw, cast”)",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forkaste",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Danish forkaste (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förkasta",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förkasta (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From for- + casten (“to throw, cast”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "forcasten",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to reject, cast away"
],
"links": [
[
"reject",
"reject"
],
[
"cast away",
"cast away"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Forms linking to themselves",
"Middle English past participles"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "forcasten"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative past participle of forcasten"
],
"links": [
[
"forcasten",
"forcasten#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alternative",
"form-of",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"word": "forcasten"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English adjectives",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English terms derived from North Germanic languages",
"Middle English terms prefixed with for-",
"Middle English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "for",
"3": "casten",
"t2": "to throw, cast"
},
"expansion": "for- + casten (“to throw, cast”)",
"name": "prefix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmq"
},
"expansion": "North Germanic",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "forkaste",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Danish forkaste (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "förkasta",
"3": "",
"4": "to reject"
},
"expansion": "Swedish förkasta (“to reject”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From for- + casten (“to throw, cast”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "adjective",
"3": "",
"4": "{{{1}}}",
"5": "",
"6": "{{{2}}}",
"7": "",
"8": "{{{3}}}",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "forcasten",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "forcasten",
"name": "enm-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"neglected"
],
"links": [
[
"neglected",
"neglected"
]
]
}
],
"word": "forcasten"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.