·noun Injury; wrong; mischief.
II. Forfeit ·vi To fail to keep an Obligation.
III. Forfeit (·p.p. / ·adj) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
IV. Forfeit ·noun Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
V. Forfeit ·vi To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to Transgress.
VI. Forfeit ·noun Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine;
— whence the game of forfeits.
VII. Forfeit ·noun 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.
VIII. Forfeit ·noun 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.