Obs. [OE. forðfór, f. FORTH adv. + fór a going: see FORE sb.] A going forth: a. OE. only: Decease, death; = FORTHFARE sb. 1. b. Used as rendering of Lat. transitus, given by Jerome as the literal meaning of pascha (passover).
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xix. (1891), 210. Forðon him cuð forðfor toweard wære & unȝewiis seo tid þære ilcan forðfore.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 3158.
| Ðat niȝt sal ben fest pasche, | |
| forð-for, on engle tunge, it be. |
