foreready

foreready

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.

Verb

foreready (third-person singular simple present forereadies, present participle forereadying, simple past and past participle forereadied) (rare, nonstandard)

  1. (transitive) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
    • 2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian:
      Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.
  2. (intransitive) To become ready; to prepare oneself.
    • 1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth:
      If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.
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