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p. p. of Forget.

ast; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

ation with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else. Only compound me with forgotten dust. Shak.

ale" Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. Mocaulay. Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or sciense often bring to light curious results. C. J. Smith. Curious arts, magic. [Obs.] Many . . . which used curious arts brought their books…

That which is disclosed or revealed. Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten Macaulay.

der effeminate. Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor. Pinkerton.

Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.

Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten. Carlyle.

t be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.

st the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.

thee son. Shak. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire Yet my people have forgotten me. Jer. ii. 32.

The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness. Second childishness and mere oblivion. Shak. Among our crimes oblivion may be set. Dryden The origin of our city will be buried in eternal oblivion. W. Irving.

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.

To reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost). [Slang]

It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors. Swift.

utually forgiveness; So may the guilt of all my broken vows, My perjuries to thee, be all forgotten. Rowe.

ation, as of a family or a clan. And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver. Longfellow. The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way att…

To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned. Dryden.

led fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. J. Philips. Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. Heber.