forpass
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
forpass (third-person singular simple present forpasses, present participle forpassing, simple past and past participle forpassed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto x:
- One day, as he forpassed by the plaine / With weary pace, he farre away espide / A couple […]
- (transitive, obsolete) To go beyond, exceed; surpass.
Synonyms edit
- (pass unnoticed): forthglide, slip by; see also Thesaurus:pass by
- (go beyond): outstep, transgress; see also Thesaurus:transcend