v. Obs. exc. Sc. Forms: 1 forhoȝian, 2 -huȝian, 3 -howien, -hoȝien, -huȝien, 4–8 forhue, 9 forhoo, forhooy, 8– forhow. [OE. forhoȝian, f. FOR- pref.1 + hoȝian to think, care.]
† 1. trans. To despise, scorn. Obs.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. ii. (1890), 102. Gif he þonne eow eac forhoȝie … sy he þonne from eow forhoȝad.
c. 1160. Hatton Gosp., Matt. xxiii. 10. Þæt ȝe ne for-huȝien ænne of þissen lytlingen.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 166. Worldliche þinges to treden & forhowien.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 25. Forhohe for to don hit þat te þuncheð uuel of.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 15107 (Cott.). We wend he had for-huud vs all.
2. To forsake, quit.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 23047 (Edin.).
| Þe formast raw … | |
| þat sinne and sak for him forhuid. |
c. 1450. Life of St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 8257.
| Þar fore saint dunstane he pursued, | |
| Whils he englande forhued. |
1753. A. Murphy, Gray’s-Inn Jrnl., No. 39, 14 July, ¶ 1. It gives me muckle Trouble to see the English forehuing their Neest, and giving it up to the Cheeld of Israel.
1768. A. Ross, Helenore, 99.
| Mind what this lass has suffer’d now for you, | |
| Whan ye did her sae treach’rously forhow. |
a. 1835. Hogg, Kilmeny, xxiv. And the merl and the mavis forhooyed their young.
1871. W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb, ii. (1873), 15. The laird wud hae to forhoo’s bit bonny nest.
Hence † Forhower, a forsaker. † Forhoght, contempt.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter, cxviii. [cxix.] 22. Bere fra me vpbraidinge and for-hoghte.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. i. 36. Ȝon ilk Troiane, forhowar of Asya [desertorem Asiæ].
