v. rare. [f. FORTH adv. + TELL v.] trans. To tell forth, publish abroad.

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1549–62.  Sternhold & H., Ps. cxlviii. 14.

        His Saints shall all forthtell,
His prayse and worthinesse:
The children of Israel,
Each one both more and lesse.

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1561.  Kethe, Ps. c. 1. Hym serue with feare, his praise forth tell.

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1889.  T. Wright, Chalice of Carden, xv. 108. The Bible, a Genevan, was ‘imprinted,’ as its title page forthtold in the last year of Elizabeth.

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