单词 | foregone |
释义 | foregoneadj. a. That has gone before or gone by; (of time) past. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] formerc1160 apassedc1314 past1340 preterite1340 eldera1400 elderna1400 eldernlya1400 bygone1424 bypast1452 ancient1490 by-runa1522 bywenta1522 spent1528 departed1552 forepassed1557 preter1578 by-come1592 worn-out1594 preterlapsed1599 foregone1609 worna1616 elapseda1644 lapsed1702 surpassed1725 gone-by1758 back1808 old-time1865 by-flown1884 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 Then can I greeue at greeuances fore-gon . View more context for this quotation 1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes i. iii With Oblivion's silent Stroke deface Of foregone Ills the very Trace. 1794 Burke Rep. Lord's Jrnls. in Wks. (1842) II. 610 With no light from any principle, precedent, or foregone authority of law. 1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 481/1 A bare scrag—cold savings from the foregone meal. 1870 J. R. Lowell Cathedral 10 This hath made poets dream of lives foregone In worlds fantastical. b. foregone conclusion: a Shakespearean phrase, variously interpreted by commentators (see conclusion n. 15). Now used for: A decision or opinion already formed before the case is argued or the full evidence known (hence foregone intention, foregone opinion, etc.); also, a result or upshot that might have been foreseen as inevitable. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > premature judgement forejudgement1548 prejudice1583 prejudication1606 foregone conclusiona1616 the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > settled beforehand fore-purpose1829 foregone intention1868 the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > inevitability > inevitable result foregone conclusion1878 the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > outcome or that which results > foregone conclusion foregone conclusion1878 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 433 But this denoted a fore-gone conclusion . View more context for this quotation 1823 C. Lamb New Year's Eve in Elia 62 I plunge into foregone visions and conclusions. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 286 Starting always with a foregone conclusion, he arrived of course where he wished to arrive. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 186 The Archbishop was simply carrying out..the foregone intention of the King. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 387 That struggle was heroic..but the conclusion was foregone. Derivatives foreˈgoneness n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1892 Athenæum 6 Aug. 191/2 [The book is] affected..by the ‘foregoneness’ of its conclusion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1609 |
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