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Webster's English Dictionary

forfeit

n. [OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do. See Foreign, and Fact.]1. Injury; wrong; mischief. ()

To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. (Ld. Berners.)

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. (Shak.)

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

Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day. (Goldsmith.)

a. [F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See Forfeit, n.] Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. ()

Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. (Shak.)

To tread the forfeit paradise. (Emerson.)

v. t. [OE. forfeten. See Forfeit, n.] 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. (Burke.)

Undone and forfeited to cares forever! (Shak.)

v. i. 1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. ()

2. To fail to keep an obligation. ()

I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. (Shak.)

p. p. or a. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation. (Shak.)

Once more I will renew His lapsd powers, though forfeite. (Milton.)