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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forethrown en · ADJ

Etymology

From fore- + thrown.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) thrown forward
    • […] as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 130, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC: