Forfeit /(?)/

1. Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.]

   To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit.

2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.

   Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.

3. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

   Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.

1. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

   Thy wealth being forfeit to the state.

   To tread the forfeit paradise.

imp. & p. p. Forfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Forfeiting

1. To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.

   [They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.

   Undone and forfeited to cares forever!

1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. [Obs.]
2. To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.]

   I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.

1. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

   Once more I will renew His lapsèd powers, though forfeite.