v. Obs. Also 4 forneme; pa. pple. 3 fornumen, fornomen. [OE. forniman, pa. t. fornam, fornóm, pa. pple. fornumen, f. FOR- pref. + niman to take.] trans. To take away, do away with, destroy; also, to take up, appropriate by encroachment.

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Beowulf, 1205 (Gr.). Hine Wyrd fornam.

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c. 1000.  Saxon Leechd., I. 118. Wið weartan, ȝenim þas ylcan wyrte … hy beoð sona fornumene.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 2228. Min two childre aren me for-numen.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, cviii. [cix.] 23.

        Als schadw, when heldes, for-nomen I am;
And for-schaken als gressop with gram.

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c. 1350.  in Eng. Gilds (1870), 359. Euerych tannere þt halt bord in þe heyestret of Wynchestre, shal, for þe stret þt he for-nemeþ, twey shullynges by þe ȝere.

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c. 1430.  Compleynt, 55, in Lydg., Temple Glas (1891), App. 60.

        And ȝee, that myghte ben myn leche,
Han me for-nome tunge & speche.

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