forsake (in H8 II. i. 89* absol. app.=leave the body)
1.
to decline, refuse All'sW. II. iii. 62,
1H6 IV. ii. 14
“If you the offer of
their love,”
Oth. IV. ii. 125
“forsook so many noble
matches.”
2.
to give up, renounce,
reject
Err. IV. iii. 19
“and bid you your
liberty,”
Lucr. 1538
“‘It cannot
be’, she in that sense forsook,
And turn'd it thus.”
