forcasten

Meaning

Adjective

• Felled, fallen.
• Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
• Abandoned; forlorn.

Origin

• Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast; also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast, past participle of forcasten, of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste ("to reject"), Swedish förkasta ("to reject"), equivalent to for- + cast.