English

Adjective

forstraught ‎(comparative more forstraught, superlative most forstraught)

1. (obsolete, rare) Distracted.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Thomas Chatterton, “The storie of William Canynge”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton, published 1890:

     My sense, forgard, could not run away, / But were not forstraught when she did alight

   • 2009, My Lord John, page 37:

     It was enough, Johanna said, to make the sely children forstraught.