v.; also 5–6 aforest. [ad. med.L. afforēstā-re (Charter of Forests 9 Hen. III) f. ad to + forēsta, forēstis, FOREST.] To convert into forest, or hunting-ground.
1502. Arnold, Chron. (1811), 208. Yf any wood other than … his owne he aforestid … it shalbe disforestid, and yf he afforested his owne propur wood remayne it forest.
1612. Davies, Discov. why Irel. etc. (1787), 124. He [Henry the Second] afforested many woods and wastes, to the grievance of the subject.
1837. W. Howitt, Rur. Life, V. i. (1862), 352. The Conqueror’s motive for afforesting so large a tract of country.
