Hypertext Webster Gateway: "foregone"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forewent 2}; p. p. {Foregone}
(?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Foregoing}.] [See {Forgo}.]
1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave.

Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.
--Herbert.

2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up;
to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already
enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.

All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego.
--Milton.

Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.
--Keble.

[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.
--R. L.
Stevenson.

Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the
word has been confused with {Forego}, to go before.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

foregone
adj : well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: {bygone}, {bypast}, {departed}, {gone}]


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