formake

English

Etymology

From for- + make, or from Middle Dutch vermaken (to make over). Cognate with German vermachen (to make over).

Verb

formake (third-person singular simple present formakes, present participle formaking, simple past and past participle formade)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To make over again; repair.
    • 1480, William Caxton, Vocabulary in French and English, folio 21r:
      Poule the couper Maketh and formaketh the keupis.

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