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fortaught

fortaught is the simple past and past participle of forteach.

Meaning of forteach

Verb

forteach (third-person singular simple present forteaches, present participle forteaching, simple past and past participle fortaught)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To unteach; contradict; misteach.
    • The sacred thinges, and holy heasts foretaught.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18

Questions about fortaught

What is fortaught the simple past and past participle of?
Fortaught is the simple past and past participle of forteach.

Words near fortaught in the dictionary

  1. Fortaleza
  2. fortalice
  3. fortalices
  4. fortamine
  5. fortatter
  6. fortaught
  7. fortax
  8. fortaxes
  9. forte
  10. forteach
  11. forteaches

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