foreday

Noun

foreday (plural foredays)

1. (archaic, in plural, poetic) Past or former days
   • This same token should be of Luces the emperor, and of the Senators [of Rome], who with him came from Rome [thither]; ' and in the same wise, they there gan fall;' what Merlin in foredays said, all they it found there, as they did ere, and subsequently well everywhere; ere Arthur were born, Merlin...1847 [c. 1200], Frederic Madden, Layamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain, translation of original by Layamon
   • When the English horsemen shivered
     On the foredays' glorious strife,
     By his spearmen, and De Clifford
     Yielded both the wreath and life.1897, Dugald Ferguson, Poems of the Heart, page 79

   Synonyms:

   foretime

2. (dialectal) The earlier part of the day; the morning or early afternoon.

   Synonyms:

   forenoon, undermeal