foughten

English

Etymology

From Middle English foughten, foghten, ifoghten, from Old English fohten, ġefohten, from Proto-Germanic *fuhtanaz, past participle of *fehtaną (“to comb; struggle with; fight”), equivalent to fought +‎ -en. Cognate with Scots fochten, fochtin, Dutch gevochten. More at fight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːtən/

Verb

foughten

1. (archaic) past participle of fight
   • 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II:

     Not that I was afraid of fighting, for now I had been three years at Blundell's, and foughten, all that time, a fight at least once every week [...].

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act I, scene III, verses 44-45:

     No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge
     Those days paternal from my memory […]

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     “the field must be foughten in our own presence, and divers weighty causes call us on the fourth day from hence.”