foreactv.
transitive and intransitive. To act beforehand (see senses of act v.).
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the world > action or operation > doing > act or do [verb (intransitive)] > beforehand
pre-act1655
foreact1757
proact1956
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > act beforehand
foreact1840
1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 17 Sagacious care foreacts.
1840 R. I. Wilberforce 5 Empires 33 The great deeds of the Son of God foreacted in dumb show in the ordinances of God's worship.
Derivatives
fore-acted adj.
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the world > action or operation > carrying out > [adjective] > executed or performed > before
ere-doneeOE
fore-acteda1618
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 912 To finde some hole in my fore-acted Life.
1682 E. Pearse Conformist's 2nd Plea for Nonconformists 26 Their fore-acted Conspiracies.
fore-acting n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > beforehand
fore-acting1652
1652 J. Caryl Expos. 11th–14th Chapters Job (new ed.) xi.–xiv. 507 These dispensations being (præludia gloriæ) the fore-actings of a glorified estate.
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