foreready

English edit

Etymology edit

From fore- +‎ ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.

Verb edit

foreready (third-person singular simple present forereadies, present participle forereadying, simple past and past participle forereadied)

(transitive) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
- 1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth:
  If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.
- 2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian:
  Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.