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▪ I. forego, n. rare—1.|ˈfɔəgəʊ|
[f. next.]
Something that goes or happens before.
1880Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith 63 The..‘Death-Watch’..was conjectured to be a forego of a Death or a Flitting.
▪ II. forego, v.|fɔəˈgəʊ|
Pa. tense forewent; pa. pple. foregone. Forms: see go.
[OE. fore-gán, f. fore- prefix + gán to go.]
1. trans. To go before or in advance of; to precede: either in position or time.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xxi. [xxiii.] (1891) 476 Oðer [steorra] hiora foreeode þa sunnan on morȝen. 1515T. More Chron. K. Edw. V, in Grafton II. 757 And the yere fore goyng his death he had obtayned the towne of Barwike. 1548Gest Pr. Masse 116 That part of the masse that forgoeth consecration. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. Pref., Summarie contents foregoing euerie chapter. 1587Golding De Mornay xxx. 491 A Christ..whom being forgone by an Elias, it behoued to preach the Kingdome of God. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. iii. §2 (1622) 214 The cause doth alwayes his effect fore-goe. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. vii. 109 The constriction of the Earlets does always forego the Diastole of the Ventricles. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia 3 Over half the earth a lovely light Forewent the morn. 1884J. Payne Tales fr. Arabic I. 15 His head forewent his feet and he fell to the ground. Ibid. 185 So Abdulmelik went away to his house, whither he found that the money had foregone him.
2. intr. To go before, precede in place or time. Also quasi-trans. with cognate obj.
c825Vesp. Ps. lxxxviii. 15 Mildheortnis & soðfestnis foregað biforan onsiene ðinre. a1300E.E. Psalter xcvi[i]. 3 Fire bi-fore him sal for-gane. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII, 45 The wife and the man with their mutual consent adhibited and fore-going enter into religion. 1563Mirr. Mag., Hastings i. 5 Cleaving my tombe the waye my fame forewent. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 117 And now they bene to heauen forewent. 1622T. Scott Belg. Pismire 30 To purchase honour without some worthy action fore-going..is not truely to be Noble. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys I. 116 A gait, sublimely unaffected by all that had foregone.
▪ III. forego
see forgo. |