For-berstan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

for-berstan

Add; (i) of material, to burst asunder, be lorn asunder :-- Godwebba cyst (the veil of the temple) ufan eall forbærst, þæt hit on eorðan læg on twám styccum, Cri. 1138. Ðonne ðá twigo forburston, þonne gewitan þá sáula niðer þá þe on ðǽm twigum hangodan, Bl. H. 211, 3. Ðý lǽs se ráp . . . forberste ne chorda rumpatur, Past. 459, 8. (2) of property, to be dissipated, exhausted :-- Ðý mon dǽlð spærlíce ðe mon nele ðæt hit forberste, Proto fail, break down, come to nothing :-- Gif hit tihtle sí and lád forberste if it be a prosecution and the defence fail, Ll. Th. i. 406, 10. Him wǽre leófre ðæt hé . . . þonne se áð forburste. Cht. Th. 171, 26. Þa cende he tern and let þone forberstan (let it go by default), 206, 28. [Him the rug forberst, Laym. 1912.] for-berstan

Parole correlate: K. 19. (3) of legal proceedings,