forhatan

Equivalent to for- +‎ hātan.

• IPA^(key): /forˈxɑː.tɑn/, [forˈhɑː.tɑn]

forhātan

1. to promise or vow not to do
2. to renounce, forswear
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Ne lyst mē nāwiht ðāra metta þe ic forhātan habbe, ac mē lyst ðāra þe ic getiohhod habbe tō ætanne, ðonne ic hī gesēo.

     I desire none of those meats which I have renounced; I desire those which I have thought right to eat, when I see them.

3. to declare criminal, outlaw, forbid

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “FORHĀTAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “FORHĀTAN supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.