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- verb Simple past of
forespeak .
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Examples
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We'll therefore, if you please, support our praises with some testimonies of Holy Writ also, in the first place, nevertheless, having forespoke our theologians that they'll give us leave to do it without offense.
The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Writ also, in the first place, nevertheless, having forespoke our theologians that they’ll give us leave to do it without offense.
In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958
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III. vii.3 (188,8) forespoke my being] To _forespeak_, is to
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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