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foregate|ˈfɔəgeɪt|
[f. fore- prefix + gate.]
1. The front gate or principal entrance.
1503in Lib. Cart. S. Crucis (1840) lvii, Item, for vij punschionis of plaister to the turatis of the foryet..iiij lib. xviij s. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 81 A castle also..and a foregate at the entrance unto it. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 101/1 Chambers near the vestibule or fore-gate. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 430 There was..to be but one entrance only, by the great foregate.
transf. and fig.1613J. Davies Muse's Teares E ij b, Beare vp the Crosse; and euer looke vpon't As on the only Key of Heau'n's fore-gate. 1692G. Stradling Serm. & Disc. 381 They [the Jesuits] were..turned out of the Foregates of those States.
Prov.c1645Howell Lett. I. v. xxi, When distrust enters in at the foregate, love goes out at the Postern. 1686W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. vii. 31 When passion enters in at the fore-gate, Wisdom goes out at the postern.
2. Sc. ‘The high or open street’ (Jam.).
1560in Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (1844) 327 Diuerse personis hes biggit and dalie biggis choppis vnder stairis vpoune the forgettis. 1567Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 43 The samyn to be saulde and toppit be honest personis in þe foir-gait in oppin and publict tavernis. a1583Chalm. Air in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 588 Gif thair be ony swine cruivis biggit on the fore-gait, stoppand the samin. |