forepast

forepast

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ past.

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, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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.

Synonyms

• (that has passed): bygone, foregone

Anagrams

• Profetas, fast rope