forsakeverb/fɔːˈseɪk/

• 1

  To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).

  • Doeſt thou forſake the deuill and all his workes? / Aunſwere. I forſake them.
  • Such hazard now muſt doting Tarqvin make, / Pawning his honor to obtaine his luſt, / And for himſelfe, himſelfe he muſt forſake.
• 2

  obsoleteTo decline or refuse (something offered).

  • The youthful Bull muſt wander in the Wood; / Behind the Mountain, or beyond the Flood: / [...] / With two fair Eyes his Miſtreſs burns his Breaſt; / He looks and languiſhes, and leaves his Reſt; / Forſakes his Food, and pining for the Laſs, / Is joyleſs of the Grove, and ſpurns the growing Graſs.
• 3

  obsoleteTo avoid or shun (someone or something).

  • This was that Pascall lambe [i.e., Jesus] whose loue for vs so stood, / That on the mount of Caluerie, for vs did shed his blood: / Where hanging on the Crosse, no shame he did forsake, / Till death giuen him by pearcing speare, an ende of life did make.
• 4

  obsoleteTo cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).

  • Theſe birds, on the continent of America, continue to flutter the year round; as their food, which is the honey of flowers, never forſakes them in thoſe warm latitudes where they are found.