foresaid

American  

[fawr-sed, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌsɛd, ˈfoʊr- /

adjective

1. aforementioned; aforesaid.

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foresaid British  

/ ˈfɔːˌsɛd /

adjective

1. a less common word for aforesaid

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Etymology

Origin of foresaid

before 1000; Middle English forsaid, Old English foresǣd. See fore-, said ¹

Example Sentences

The foresaid high Grampian mountains abounded with spasmodiac opening, or excavated parts, that if a loud cry made at accomodious distant, they would sounded the same in such miraculous manner, that one apt to conceive that each parts of those spasmodic rocks imbibed the vociferation which is depressing gradually the sonorific sound to the expiry thereof.

From The New Yorker

The foresaid city of Canasia is situated in waters and marshes, which alwayes stand still, neither ebbing nor flowing: howbeit it hath a defence for the winde like vnto Venice.

From Project Gutenberg

Foresaid, fōr′sed, adj. described or spoken of before.

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We shall not suffer, by our good-wills, the foresaid lords and their complices to be called or accused in Parliament, nor suffer any forfeiture to be laid against them....

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After this they produced and showed forth in writing, subscribed likewise by the said Justice-Clerk, a copy of the process, verdict, and judgment against the foresaid John Hepburn, John Hay, William Powrie, and George Dalgleish, as culpable of the murder of the said King, which being read, was also delivered, and the tenours thereof hereafter followeth, Curia justiciariae S. D. N. regis, &c.

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