Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Past or having existed before a certain time; former: as, forepast sins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Bygone.

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  • adjective obsolete That has passed; bygone.

Etymologies

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From fore- +‎ past.

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Examples

  • And for forepast works, they are still mentioned by the saints as if they had been done in their days, before their eyes.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Faith gives a present subsistence to forepast works as recorded, and future mercies as promised, to support the soul in an evil day.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Consider we by the ordinary mutations, and daily declinations which we suffer, how Nature deprives us of the sight of our losse and empairing; what hath an aged man left him of his youths vigor, and of his forepast life?

    That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

  • I, [FN#497] but I hope, quoth Lionello, this is the last time, and now shee will begin to smile; for on Monday next he rides to Vicensa, and his wife lyes at the grange house a little (out) of the towne, and there in his absence I will revenge all forepast misfortunes.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • His youth forepast -- as though it wrought him good

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

  • His youth forepast -- as though it wrought him good

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845

  • And whatsoever comfort shall remain of all forepast, the same will consist in the charity which we exercised living; and in that piety, justice, and firm faith, for which it pleased the infinite mercy of God to accept of us, and receive us.

    Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

  • So let vs, which this chaunge of weather vew, chaunge eeke our mynds and former liues amend the old yeares sinnes forepast let vs eschew, and fly the faults with which we did offend.

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • Consider we by the ordinary mutations, and daily declinations which we suffer, how Nature deprives us of the sight of our losse and empairing; what hath an aged man left him of his youths vigor, and of his forepast life?

    Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

  • He shall find nothing remaining but those sorrows which grow up after our fast-springing youth, overtake it when it is at a stand, and overtop it utterly when it begins to wither; insomuch as, looking back from the very instant time, and from our now being, the poor, diseased, and captive creature hath as little sense of all his former miseries and pains as he that is most blest, in common opinion, hath of his forepast pleasures and delights.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885

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