Definitions for the word "forfeit" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Injury; wrong; mischief.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To fail to keep an obligation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. p. p. / a.
In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 penalty. 2 thing surrendered as a penalty. adj. Lost or surrendered as a penalty. v. (-t-) lose the right to, surrender as a penalty. forfeiture n. [french forfaire transgress, from latin foris outside, facio do]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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