foreready en · VERB
Etymology
From fore- + ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.
Meanings
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(nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.
2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian:
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(intransitive, nonstandard, rare) To become ready; to prepare oneself.
If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.
1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| forereadies | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| forereadying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| forereadied | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| forereadied | Tense=Past | lexicographic |