forelend

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ lend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛnd/

Verb

forelend (third-person singular simple present forelends, present participle forelending, simple past and past participle forelent)

1. (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

   • 1912, Ezra Pound, “Ballate”, in Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti:

     Foretelling: Spirits mine, swift death shall end ye,
     Cruel! if seeing me no tears forelend ye,
     Sith but the being in thought sets wide mine eyes
     For sobbing out my heart’s full memories.

References

• “forelend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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