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forestudy

forestudy verb: to study beforehand or in advance.

Verb

forestudy (third-person singular simple present forestudies, present participle forestudying, simple past and past participle forestudied)

  1. (rare, transitive) To study beforehand or in advance.
    • Third, where he says, with his quaint, but expressive brevity of style, " that Lord Hastings was an honourable man, a good knight, and a gentle of great authority with his prince; of living somewhat dissolute, plain and open to his enemy, and sweet to his friend; easy to be beguiled, as he that (of...1821, Henry Nugent Bell, The Huntingdon Peerage

Noun

forestudy (plural forestudies)

  1. Anything studied or requiring study beforehand; a prerequisite.
    • As we shall soon see, this latter point will become an important means of comparison and differentiation when we investigate the Discourse. Thus, even though Couturat believed this work to be a forestudy for the Discourse (L 267), it fails to be [...]1993, Roger S. Woolhouse, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Critical Assessments - Volume 1 - Page 261

Forms of forestudy

Verb
third-person singular presentforestudies
present participleforestudying
past participleforestudied
pastforestudied
Noun
pluralforestudies

Origin of forestudy

From fore- + study.

Questions about forestudy

What does forestudy mean?
Forestudy means to study beforehand or in advance.
What part of speech is forestudy?
Forestudy can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of forestudy?
The past tense of forestudy is forestudied.

Words near forestudy in the dictionary

  1. forestsful
  2. forestside
  3. forestsides
  4. forestudied
  5. forestudies
  6. forestudy
  7. forestudying
  8. Forestville
  9. forestward
  10. forestwards
  11. forestwide

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