forwarn
To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
Verb
- To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
- Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House. - 1690, Thomas Shadwell, The amorous bigotte:
- I meet the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...] - 1708, Samuel Sewall, Diary:
- [...] 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...
Origin
From Middle English forwernen, from Old English forwærnan, forwoernan, forwiernan (“to hinder, prohibit, prevent, repel, refuse, repudiate, deny, withhold, oppose”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-, *fur-, *far- (“for-”) + *warnijaną (“to care, worry”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, defend”), equivalent to for- + warn (“to deny, refuse, forbid”).