forepassed
adjective
already in the past; bygone.
forepast
-
a variation of
forepassed.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“For things forepast are precedents to us, Whereby we may things present now, discuss,” as the old poet said who brought together a tragical collection of precedents in the mirror of magistrates.
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
But, father, now my joys forepast to tell, Do but revive the horrors of my hell.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Why tell of grievances in days forepast, The vessels burnt on Eryx' distant shore, The tempest's monarch, and the raging blast Stirred in Æolia, and the winds' uproar, And Iris, heaven-sent messenger?
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
So shall succeeding ages have no light Of things forepast, nor moniments of time; And all that in this world is worthie hight 105 Shall die in darknesse, and lie hid in slime!
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
So let us, which this chaunge of weather vew, Chaunge eke our mynds, and former lives amend; The old yeares sinnes forepast let us eschew, And fly the faults with which we did offend.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
