forego
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[edit] Etymology
Old English forgan (for + gan).
[edit] Verb
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to forego (third-person singular simple present foregoes, present participle foregoing, simple past forewent, past participle foregone)
- To precede, to go before.
- Alternative spelling of forgo.
- 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, Vol. I (February), page 34:
- […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
- 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon, in The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, Vol. I (February), page 34:
[edit] Usage notes
- In sense 1, usually found in the form of the participles foregone (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").
- In sense 2, many writers prefer the less common spelling forgo, on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity.
[edit] Translations
To precede.
[edit] References
- forego in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- forego in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
