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Forstraught

For-straught′

,
p.
p.
&
Adj.
[Pref.
for-
+
straught
; cf.
distraught
.]
Distracted.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


forstraught

forstraught

English

Adjective

forstraught (comparative more forstraught, superlative most forstraught)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Distracted.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Chatterton, “The storie of William Canynge”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton, published 1890:
      My sense, forgard, could not run away, / But were not forstraught when she did alight
    • 2009, My Lord John, page 37:
      It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught.