forepast
English
Etymology
Adjective
forepast (not comparable)
- (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best
[…] all forepast displeasures to repeale.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt […].
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Take him away,
My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall
Shall taze my feares of little vanitie,
Hauing vainly fear'd too little.
Synonyms
- (that has passed): bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past