For-feran
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-feran
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- for-feran
- l. -féran, and add: I. of physical death. (1) natural:--Se cing (Ethelred) forférde (geendode his dagas, ) on S. Georgies mæssedæg æfter miclum geswince, Chr. 1016; P. 148, 21. (2) of violent or untimely death, to perish:--Forférde Hácun eorl on sǽ (comes Hacun in mari periit, Fl. Wig.), Chr. 1030; P. 157, 36. Hé féng stíð weder and him þǽr micel forférde, 1052; P. 176, 16: Hml. S. 11, 202: 28, 118: Hml. A. 46, 549. Ealle þá forférdon þe æt þám rǽde wǽron, Chr. 1076; P. 212, 16: Hml. Th. ii. 384, 4: Hml. S. 4, 379: 17, 122: Forférdon naufragauerant, An. Ox. 4490: 4621. II. of spiritual perdition, to be lost, perish:--Þæt teóðe engla werod forférde, Hml. Th. i. 344, 15. [v. N. E. D. forfere.] for-feran