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Webster 1913 Edition


forepast

fore′pastˊ

(fōr′pȧst)
,
Adj.
Bygone.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forepast

FO'REPAST

,
Adj.
Past before a certain time; as forepast sins. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


forepast

forepast

English

Adjective

forepast (not comparable)

  1. (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.

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