Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To forbid; renounce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To forbid; to renounce; to forsake; to deny.
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- verb to
forbid - verb to
renounce - verb to
deny ,gainsay - verb to
forsake
Etymologies
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From Middle English forsayen ("to renounce"), from Old English forsecgan ("to accuse, accuse falsely, slander, speak about, discourse on"), equivalent to for- + say. Cognate with German versagen ("to refuse, deny"), Swedish försäga ("to misspeak, say too much"). More at for-, say.
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Old He mysteriously was underneath my bed and he grabbed my arm and said that he and forsay the beatles and he mentioned the names of them.
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For instance, the approved rates forsay Andheri (a suburb of Mumbai) is between Rs 7,000 -
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