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▪ I. foregoing, vbl. n.|fɔəˈgəʊɪŋ|
[f. forego v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. forego; a going before, preceding, or leading the way.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 21 After whom, encouraged..with theyr excellent fore-going, others haue followed. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 130 Their verity depends not upon our knowledge, but upon the fore⁓going of their causes.
†2. That which goes before. Obs.—1
1598Florio, Preambulo, a preamble, a foregoing.
▪ II. foregoing, ppl. a.|fɔəˈgəʊɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That goes or has gone before, preceding (in position or time).
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 306 Heyle starre forgoynge. 1532More Confut. Tindale ii. iv. 119 They doo not merite with anye forgoyng good dedes. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. Pref. Ep., The ensuing matter will be answerable to the foregoing title. 1737Whiston Josephus' Hist. i. xix. §2 The multitude..were emboldened by their foregoing victory. 1828J. H. Moore Pract. Navig. (ed. 20) 229 From the foregoing examples it is plain, that the operation is the same. 1841Emerson Addr., Method Nat. Wks. (Bohn) II. 226 A fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
b. absol. (quasi-n.) and ellipt.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. ii. §7 The Political and civil part of it, which may better be called wisdom then most of the fore-going. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 185 Besides the foregoing, Lord Breadalbane has..eleven portraits. 1874Helps Soc. Press. iii. 54 The foregoing must not be confounded with purely communistic theories. |