Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An incorrect form of
fordo . - To do beforehand; perform or perpetrate previously.
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- verb Alternative spelling of
fordo .
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Examples
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Someday the 31% of us - gay and straight, will foredo the uptight self-righteous homophobic elitists and see just a bit more constitutional civil rights in the U.S.
isn't it queer 2004
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France, and there told the king how S. Thomas would destroy his realm, and then there told how he would foredo such laws as his elders had used tofore him, wherefore S. Thomas was sent for, and they were brought together.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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To the which the king said: Now I see well that thou wouldest foredo the laws of this land which have been used in the days of my predecessors, but it shall not lie in thy power, and so the king being wroth departed.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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