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foreconceived

foreconceived is the simple past and past participle of foreconceive.

Meaning of foreconceive

Verb

foreconceive (third-person singular simple present foreconceives, present participle foreconceiving, simple past and past participle foreconceived)

  1. (transitive) To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
    • I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about foreconceived

What is foreconceived the simple past and past participle of?
Foreconceived is the simple past and past participle of foreconceive.

Words near foreconceived in the dictionary

  1. forecomers
  2. forecomes
  3. forecoming
  4. forecomings
  5. foreconceive
  6. foreconceived
  7. foreconceives
  8. foreconceiving
  9. foreconception
  10. foreconceptions
  11. forecondemn

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