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Webster 1913 Edition
Forpass
For-pass′
,Verb.
T.
& I.
To pass by or along; to pass over.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Forpass
FORP'ASS
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
forpass
forpass
English
Verb
forpass (third-person singular simple present forpasses, present participle forpassing, simple past and past participle forpassed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- One day, as he forpassed by the plaine / With weary pace, he farre away espide / A couple [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
- (transitive, obsolete) To go beyond, exceed; surpass.