forsake

1. (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).Examples: "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."; "Thou lou'd the Church once, and didſt God adore, / But now forſakest him, thou lou'd before."transitive

2. (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).Examples: "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."obsoletetransitive

3. (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).Examples: "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."obsoletetransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).Examples: "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."obsoletetransitive