forepassedforepastadj.
/fɔːˈpɑːst//fɔːˈpast/ a. That has previously passed, or been passed. Now only of time.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective]
formerc1160
apassedc1314
past1340
preterite1340
eldera1400
elderna1400
eldernlya1400
bygone1424
bypast1452
ancient1490
by-runa1522
bywenta1522
spent1528
departed1552
forepassed1557
preter1578
by-come1592
worn-out1594
preterlapsed1599
foregone1609
worna1616
elapseda1644
lapsed1702
surpassed1725
gone-by1758
back1808
old-time1865
by-flown1884
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. S.i O Lord..for my helpe make haste To pardon the forpassed race that carelesse I haue past.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 21 Neither could any of the forepassed vndertakers..discouer the country.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 62 Those forepassed Howers.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 12 The Actions of my fore-past Life.
1830 R. Southey in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 256 Forepast times..With no portent could match it.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb]
erea822
fernOE
whileOE
erera1000
whilereOE
onceOE
somewhile1154
whilomc1175
herebeforec1200
somewhilesa1250
yorea1250
orc1275
rather?a1300
erewhilec1305
sometimea1325
sometimec1330
at or in sometime1340
in arrear1340
heretoforea1375
fernyear1377
once upon a timec1380
behinds1382
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of olda1393
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erst14..
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late1423
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beforetimes1449
whilesc1480
sometime1490
aforrow?a1513
behind1526
quondamc1540
in foretime(s?c1550
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erstwhiles1569
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formerly1599
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somewhile since1652
quondamly1663
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sometimea1684
backward1691
historically1753
time back1812
had-been1835
when1962
1664 Floddan Field iii. 24 What he had said fore-past was nought.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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