Forespeed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Forespeed is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To outrun; outspeed.
Meaning
(transitive, rare) To outrun; outspeed.
Example Sentences
"And come he early, come he late," She saith, "it will undo me; The sharp fore-speeded shaft of fate Already quivers through me."
A letter begun to a Gentlewoman of some account, which was left of by means of the aduise of a friend of his, who said she was foresped.
Thus he spake; but now there sounded Through the night the holy bell That to Lord's Day matins gather'd Every monk from every cell. Eager at the sound, Columba In the way foresped the rest, And before the altar kneeling Pray'd with hands on holy breast.
Word Forms
- forespeeds
- forespeeding
- foresped
- forespeeded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include outspeed, outpace, outstrip, outrun, outgo, overgo.
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