Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
forspent . - adjective obsolete Already spent; gone by; past.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
forespend .
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Examples
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“Nay, thou shalt not need,” said the traveller; “if it indeed be as thou sayest, I will follow thee of free-will — the rather that I am not wholly unskilled in leech-craft, and have in my scrip that which may do thy friend a service — Yet walk more slowly, I pray thee, for I am already well-nigh forespent with travel.”
The Monastery 2008
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And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,
Cymbeline 2004
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Were lost; forespent with breathless speed some pass
The Persians 2002
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Were lost; forespent with breathless speed some pass
The Persians 2002
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And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,
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Bitter ruing our imprisonment, With toil forespent he threw
Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886
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Gawain the elder in like manner, and when they had eaten they went to lie down and fell on sleep, for right sore weary were they and forespent of the many buffets they had given and received, and they slept until the morrow.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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With fainting hearts and hands forespent with toil,
The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations Emma Lazarus 1868
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XIV died; here the chamber in which poor Louis XV ended so gloomily his life forespent to pleasure.
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"Nay, thou shalt not need," said the traveller; "if it indeed be as thou sayest, I will follow thee of free-will -- the rather that I am not wholly unskilled in leech-craft, and have in my scrip that which may do thy friend a service -- Yet walk more slowly, I pray thee, for I am already well-nigh forespent with travel."
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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