forepastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

forepast (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) That has passed; bygone.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book V, canto 8:

     Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best
     […] all forepast displeasures to repeale.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Of that condition is this other counsell, which Philosophie giveth, onely to keepe forepast [translating passé] felicities in memorie, and thence blot out such griefes as we have felt […].

   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Take him away,
     My fore-past proofes, how ere the matter fall
     Shall taze my feares of little vanitie,
     Hauing vainly fear'd too little.