Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: FORM'I-DA-BLE – FORS'TER
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FORM'I-DA-BLE, a. [L. formidabilis, from formido, fear.]
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter or undertaking. It expresses less than terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrible, and frightful. They seemed to fear the formidable sight. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. Dryden.
The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread.
FORM'I-DA-BLY, adv.
In a manner to impress fear.
FORM'LESS, a. [from form.]
Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. Shak.
FORM'U-LA, or FORM'ULE, n. [L.]
- A prescribed form; a rule or model.
- In medicine, a prescription.
- In church affairs, a confession of faith. Encyc. In mathematics, a general expression for resolving certain cases or problems. Cyc.
FORM'U-LA-RY, a.
Stated; prescribed; ritual. Johnson.
FORM'U-LA-RY, n. [Fr. formulaire, from L. formula.]
- A book containing stated and prescribed forms, as of oaths, declarations, prayers and the like; a book of precedents. Encyc.
- Prescribed form.
FORN'I-CATE, or FORN'I-CA-TED, a. [L. fornicatus, from fornix, an arch.]
Arched; vaulted like an oven or furnace. Encyc.
FORN'I-CATE, v.i. [L. fornicor, from fornix, a brothel.]
To commit lewdness, as an unmarried man or woman, or as a married man with an unmarried woman. If a brahmin fornicate with a Nayr woman, he shall not thereby lose his cast. As. Researches.
FORN-I-CA'TION, n. [L. fornicatio.]
- The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman. Laws of Connecticut.
- Adultery. Matth. v.
- Incest. 1 Cor. v.
- Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshiping of idols. 2 Chron. xxi. Rev. xix.
- An arching; the forming of a vault.
FORN'I-CA-TOR, n.
- An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal conversation with the other sex; also, a married man who has sexual commerce with an unmarried woman. [See Adultery.]
- A lewd person.
- An idolater.
FORN'I-CA-TRESS, n.
An unmarried female guilty of lewdness. Shak.
FOR'PASS, v.i.
To go by; to pass unnoticed. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOR-PINE, v.i.
To pine or waste away. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOR-RAY, n.
The act of ravaging. [Obs.]
FOR-RAY, v.t.
To ravage. [Obs.] [Qu. forage.] Spenser.
FOR-SAKE, v.t. [pret. forsook; pp. forsaken. Sax. forsacan, forsæcan; for, a negative, and secan, to seek. See Seek. Sw. försaka, Dan. forsager, G. versagen, D. verzaaken, to deny, to renounce. See Seek and Say.]
- To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from. Friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. Forsake the foolish, and live. Prov. ix.
- To abandon; to renounce; to reject. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath- Ps. assail.
- To leave; to withdraw from; to fail. In anger, the color forsakes the cheeks. In severe trials, let not fortitude forsake you.
- In Scripture, God forsakes his people, when he withdraws his aid, or the light of his countenance. Brown.
FOR-SAK-EN, pp.
Deserted; left; abandoned.
FOR-SAK-ER, n.
One that forsakes or deserts.
FOR-SAK-ING, n.
The act of deserting; dereliction.
FOR-SAK-ING, ppr.
Leaving or deserting.
FOR-SAY, v.t.
To forbid; to renounce. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOR-SLACK', v.t.
To delay. [Obs.] Spenser.
FOR-SOOTH', adv. [Sax. forsothe; for and soth, true.]
In truth; in fact; certainly; very well. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm. Hayward. [It is generally used in an ironical or contemptuous sense.]
FORS'TER, n.
A forester. [Obs.] Chaucer.