v. Obs. Also 4 fordoll. [f. FOR- pref.1 + DULL v.; cf. MLG. vordullen and FORDILL v.] trans. To make dull; to stupefy. Only in pa. pple. Hence Fordulled ppl. a.
13[?]. Legends of the Holy Rood (1871), 141.
| Alle þei seiden þei weore sori, | |
| For-dolled in a drouknyng dred. |
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 11. I dewyne for-dolled [printed dolked] of luf daungere.
1430. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, I. vi.
| Fordulled is myne imagynatyfe, | |
| To deme in practike or in speculatyfe. |
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. Prol., 158. Or for to droup like a fordullit as?
1578. T. Proctor, Gorg. Gallery, in Heliconia (1814), I. 163.
| O feeble wit! forduld with woe, awake thy wandering thought; | |
| Seeke out, thou shalt assured finde, shall bring thy cares to nought. |
1592. R. Wilmot, Tancred & Gismunda, II.
| Ah me deare Lord, what well of teares may serue | |
| To feed the streames of my foredulled eies, | |
| To weepe thy death, as thy death doth deserue, | |
| And waile thy want in full sufficing wise. |
1605. Montgomerie, Sonnets, xi.
| Quhat mervell than, thoght our fordullit hedes | |
| And blunter brainis be mare amaisd at it. |
