ppl. a. [f. FORE- pref. + PASSED, PAST.] That has previously passed, or been passed. Now only of time.

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1557.  Tottell’s Misc. (Arb.), 143.

        O Lord my hope beholde, and for my helpe make haste
To pardon the forpassed race that carelesse I haue past.

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1596.  Raleigh, Discov. Gviana, 21. Neither could any of the forepassed vndertakers, nor Berreo himself, discouer the country.

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1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xxii. (1748), 353.

        Revive thee with the thought of those forepassed hours,
When the rough wood-gods kept, in their delightful bowers.

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a. 1713.  Ellwood, Autobiog. (1714), 43. But when it pleased the Lord, in his infinite Goodness, to call me out of the Spirit and Ways of the World, and give me the Knowledge of his saving Truth; whereby the Actions of my fore-past Life were set in Order before me.

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1830.  Southey, Yng. Dragon, I. 36.

        Some vengeance so severe and strange,
That forepast times, in all their range,
  With no portent could match it.

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  † b.  quasi-adv. On a past occasion. Obs.

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1664.  Floddan F., III. 24.

        What he had said fore-past was nought,
  The King’s judgment was worthy praise;
If he in all things had so wrought,
  Belike he had driven forth more days.

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