英语词汇“foretime”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

foretime

释义

foretime, n. and adv.|ˈfɔətaɪm|
[f. fore- prefix + time n.]
Former time; a former time. †a. In advb. phrase, in foretime(s = aforetimes.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 98 If there were in foretimes enie hatred on their partes towards the Romaines.1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 507 It was called in foretime Norton Dany.
b. The time gone by, the past; also, the early days (of a city or state).
1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxvii. XI. 380 That conception of Athens in her foretime which he [Thucydides] is perpetually impressing on his countrymen.1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi v. (1869) 124 The single great Achaian voyage of the traditionary fore-time, that of the ship Argo to the Euxine.
c. attrib. (quasi-adj.)
1894F. S. Ellis Reynard 116 He who thought the world to win, His foretime poverty was in.1896C. Harrison in Daily News 8 Jan. 6/3 For though You now have passed away from us The foretime Dedication still holds good.
†B. adv. = aforetime. Obs.^—1
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 128 Lest thou dost lose what foretime thou didst gain.

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