forlong

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Middle English forlangen, equivalent to for- +‎ long. Cognate with Middle High German verlangen.

Verb

[edit]

forlong (third-person singular simple present forlongs, present participle forlonging, simple past and past participle forlonged)

  1. To fill with longing.
    • 2005, Swede Hastings, Creeping Shadows:
      Now certain shadows followed me. Forlonged memories move round From visions inside my head I see [...]
    • 2009, Carol Gilligan, Kyra:
      And then after, forlonged, forlonging, longing without end. I looked at his hands, his fingers long, elegant, the hands of a conductor.
Derived terms
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

forlong (plural forlongs)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of furlong
    • 1857, Robert Conger Pell, Milledulcia:
      Again, Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy work, is: Printed oner sea, in Europe, within two forlongs of a Bouncing Priest, at the Cost and Charges of Martin Marprelate, Gent, 1589.
    • 1881, Plutarchus, Plutarch's Lives, tr., with notes and a mem. by J. and W. Langhorne:
      Besides, he divided all the road into miles, of near eight forlongs each, and set up pillars of stone to mark the divisions.
    • 1971, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of the Close Rolls ...: Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 44, page 295:
      A parcel of land in 'Wodeforlonge' containing 1 acre lying in the upper forlong of that field between land of the prioress called 'Candalescroftes' sometime of Robert Adelm* and land sometime of William Barnevyle and extending lengthwise from land called the 'Menecroft' to land of said William towards Lyddynges water.

Anagrams

[edit]

Middle English

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

forlong (third-person singular simple present forlongeth, present participle forlongende, forlongynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle forlonged)

  1. (transitive) To keep or continue longer; prolong.
    • 1496, Dives and Paupers:
      They haue leuer to gyue .xx. shellynges to forlonge the soules in payne all a yere.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

forlong

  1. Alternative form of furlong