Dictionary

forecome en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forcomen, from Old English forecuman, from Proto-Germanic *furaikwemaną (“to come before”), equivalent to fore- + come.

Meanings

1. To come before and influence, especially to precede and prevent.
   • However, to simplify matters and forecome continual amendments, many agreements now specify that the bargaining unit will encompass all employee classes where the union has significant representivity. 1996, Sonia Bendix, Industrial relations in the new South Africa, page 291:
   • ...accordingly, there will be only two hundred remaining, which I desire him may be forwarded to you with the utmost dispatch, and I hope they will be with you time enough, to forecome any inconveniences the shameful desertion of those, that are gone off, might have put you to. 1869, Nova Scotia Archives, page 481:
   • It is in vain that ye rise before the dawn to go forth to your labours and to your business, unless I, the Sun of Righteousness, forecome your efforts with My light. 1869, Paradise of the Christian soul, page 9:
   • But to forecome this shortcoming the measurement and mapping techniques presented could be combined with other indicators. 1998, Clara Eugenia Garcia, Luis Sanz Menéndez, Management and Technology - Volume 5, page 97:

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Deriveds

forecomer