Meaning of forespeed | Babel Free

Definitions

To outrun; outspeed.

rare, transitive

Examples

“A letter begun to a Gentlewoman of some account, which was left of by means of the aduise of a friend of his, who said she was foresped.”

“Thus he spake; but now there sounded Through the night the holy bell That to Lord's Day matins gather'd Every monk from every cell. Eager at the sound⟳, Columba In the way foresped the rest⟳, And before the altar kneeling Pray'd with hands on holy breast.”

“"And come⟳ he early, come⟳ he late," She saith, "it will undo⟳ me; The sharp fore-speeded shaft of fate Already quivers through me."”

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