forfault

Scots

Noun

forfault (plural forfaults)

1. (obsolete) forfeit

Verb

forfault

1. (obsolete) Forfeit.
   • [1681, “an Healing Hand” [pseudonym; John Bairdy], Balm from Gilead: Or, The Differences about the Indulgence, Stated and Impleaded: […] (in English), London: […] Tho[mas] Cockerill […], →OCLC, page 162:

     Let none dare to think as vve hear ſome one or tvvo begins to muſſitate, that the Magiſtrates miſcarriages about the matters of Religion, does forfault him of his right to govern, and ſo cadens titulo, is no more to be ovvned as King.]