forelend
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛnd/
Verb
forelend (third-person singular simple present forelends, present participle forelending, simple past and past participle forelent)
- (transitive, archaic) to lend in advance
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- As if that life to losse they had forelent
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for forelend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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