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Webster 1913 Edition
forepast
fore′pastˊ
(fōr′pȧst)
, Adj.
Bygone.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Forepast
FO'REPAST
,Adj.
Definition 2024
forepast
forepast
English
Adjective
forepast (not comparable)
- (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
- Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best / […] all forepast displeasures to repeale.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [transl. passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt […].
- c.1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, First Folio 1623:
- Take him away, / My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall / Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, / Hauing vainly fear'd too little.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8: