forespeed

English edit

Etymology edit

From fore- +‎ speed.

Verb edit

forespeed (third-person singular simple present forespeeds, present participle forespeeding, simple past and past participle foresped or forespeeded)

(transitive, rare) To outrun; outspeed.
- 1837, George Turberville, James Maidment, Giovanni Boccaccio, Tragical Tales: And Other Poems - Page 345:
  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.
- 1896, John Stuart Blackie, Archibald Stodart Walker, The Selected Poems of John Stuart Blackie - Page 191:
  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.
- 1904, Carolyn Wells, A Parody Anthology - Page 119:
  "And come he early, come he late," She saith, "it will undo me; The sharp fore-speeded shaft of fate Already quivers through me."

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foredeeps