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forespeed en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + speed.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To outrun; outspeed.
   • Thus he spake; but now there sounded Through the night the holy bell That to Lord's Day matins gather'd Every monk from every cell. Eager at the sound, Columba In the way foresped the rest, And before the altar kneeling Pray'd with hands on holy breast. 1896, John Stuart Blackie, Archibald Stodart Walker, The Selected Poems of John Stuart Blackie - Page 191:
   • "And come he early, come he late," She saith, "it will undo me; The sharp fore-speeded shaft of fate Already quivers through me." 1904, Carolyn Wells, A Parody Anthology - Page 119:
   • A letter begun to a Gentlewoman of some account, which was left of by means of the aduise of a friend of his, who said she was foresped. 1837, George Turberville, James Maidment, Giovanni Boccaccio, Tragical Tales: And Other Poems - Page 345:

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