forwarn

Definitions

To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).

transitive

Examples

“Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House.”

“I meet⟳ the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...]”

“[...] having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use⟳ for which the architect had clearly not designed it, to justify⟳ himself, with great simplicity averred, that he did not know⟳ that the thing had been forewarned.”

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