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foreform en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + form.

Meanings

1. An early or previous form; protoform
   • Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter and force or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study that gives to us, whether as children or as men, … 1916, The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin - Volumes 1-5
   • This interpretation shows that the thinking of being as beingness is not at all a beginning and so to speak does not arise from a “natural” representation of beings in general, but originates from the swaying of being that ever first inceptually as rising (φύσις) refused the grounding of its truth and along with it let ἀλήθεια become the presencing of what is constant (and thus let ἀλήθεια become the 'fore-form' of objectness). 2016, Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness:
   • The unconscious is full of artful subterfuge; it shapes our unplanned utterances with unforeseen forethoughts – or foreforms, if one permits such things, for the mind is a repository of hidden and ready formations, a dark library of grammars whose nature is to make possible the inspired and the rash: dreams, talk, solemn unbreakable vows. 2007, David Arnold, Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal:
   • The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi). 1982, Georg Morgenstierne, Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne - Volume 2

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foreform en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + form.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To form beforehand or in advance; prepare

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