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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

forpass en · VERB

Etymology

From for- + pass.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
    • One day, as he forpassed by the plaine / With weary pace, he farre away espide / A couple […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto x:
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To go beyond, exceed; surpass.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
forpasses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
forpassing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forpassed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
forpassed Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

transgress · slip by (pass unnoticed) · outstep (go beyond)