Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic, poetic) exhausted

* {{quote-book, year=1844, author=Various, title=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=IV. But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Unknown, title=High History of the Holy Graal, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Messire Gawain taketh it, for his own was broken short, and departeth from the knight and commendeth him to God. And he goeth his way a great pace, and Messire Gawain also goeth amidst the forest, and full weary is he and forspent with travail. }}