Definition of Forayed

1. Verb. (past of foray) ¹

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Definition of Forayed

1. foray [v] - See also: foray

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forayed

foraminiferans
foraminiferas
foraminiferous
foraminifers
foraminotomy
foraminous
foraminulum
forams
forane
foraneous
forasmuch
forasmuch as
foravirumab
foray
foray into
forayed (current term)
forayer
forayers
foraying
forays
forb
forbad
forbade
forbar
forbare
forbathe
forbear
forbearance
forbearances
forbearant

Literary usage of Forayed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England by Great Britain Privy Council, Great Britain Record Commission (1835)
"... who behaved as though it were open war, and especially on the 1st of the present month, when they forayed the country around Berwick and took away 60 ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... attacked them with a more numerous force, while at other times the regular garrison of necessity* made incursions on tho land, and forayed it, Agis, ..."

3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"He forayed like the subtile haze of summer, That stilly shows fresh landscapes to our eyes, And revolutions works without a murmur, Or rustling of a leaf ..."

4. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"Far and wide these fierce riders forayed, under their savage leader Mikhal Oglu, who was a descendant of Scant- Beard Mikhal, a close ally of the first ..."

5. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1911)
"He forayed like the subtil haze of summer, That stilly shows fresh landscapes to our eyes, And revolutions works without a murmur, Or rustling of a leaf ..."

6. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Lust and rapine, flame and slaughter, forayed with the Welshman grim: " Take my pesos, spare my daughter I " " Ha ! ha ! " roared that devil's limb, ..."

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