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Definition of Forepast
1. a. Bygone.
Definition of Forepast
1. Adjective. (obsolete) That has passed; bygone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forepast
1. already in the past [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forepast
Literary usage of Forepast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"But who had seen him, sobbing how he stood 3 23 Unto himself, and how he would
bemoan His youth forepast, as though it wrought him good To talk of youth, ..."
2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... pilot, old in rust of sin ; Which to God's spotless Lamb, might not be won.
Naught profited them hath Baal, in time forepast, Astarte, Adonai, ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"Our knowledge of matters forepast by the former means, (though popes themselves
be the relators, unless their relation be cathedral,) as hath been proved, ..."
4. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1909)
"But and the cruel Fates so fixed be That time forepast cannot return again, This
one request of Jove yet prayed he: 150 That in such withered plight and ..."
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