frontaln.

/ˈfrʌntəl/

Forms: Middle English fro(u)ntel(l, Middle English–1500s fruntall(e, -telle, 1500s–1600s frontall, 1500s–1700s frontale, (1500s frontayle), 1600s– frontal.

Etymology: Middle English frountel , < Old French frontel < late Latin frontāle , < front- , frōns : see front n. and -al suffix¹. Old French had also the form frontal (still preserved in some senses); in modern French, by confusion of suffixes, frontail and fronteau (compare medieval Latin frontellum in Promp. Parv.) are used in various specific applications of the general sense.

†1. Something applied to the forehead. Obsolete.

a. A band or ornament worn on the forehead.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band > types of

frontalc1320

mitrea1382

counter-filletc1430

frontlet1478

mitra1638

head-tie1669

sévigné1826

sweat-rag1843

sphendone1850

agal1853

sweat-band1891

Alice band1944

c1320 Pol. Songs (Camden) 154 The bout and the barbet wyth frountel shule feȝe.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 585/2 Frontale, a frontell.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Frontayle for a womans head, some call it a fruntlet.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 416 His brother foorthwith tooke the roiall frontall called a diademe, and did it about his owne head.

1615 Bp. J. Hall Imprese of God i, in Recoll. Treat. 657 Looke how much difference there is betweene..the frontall of the hy-priest, and the Bells of horses.

b. A piece of defensive armour for a horse's head; = front-stall n. (Cf. French frontail, fronteau.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for head

testerc1386

cheveronnec1420

chamfron1465

shaffron1465

headpiece1530

chaffron1547

frontal1587

chieffront1598

frontlet1805

front-stall1825

1587 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. ix. 126 They arme their horses too; about his legges they tie bootes, and couer his head with frontals of steele.

c. Medicine. A medicament applied to the forehead to cure headache. (Cf. French frontal, fronteau.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > for headache

frontary1564

frontal1601

cephalalgic1726

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 75 It cureth the head-ach, if it be applied as a frontall to the forehead and temples.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 172 A Frontal with Mastic.

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. li. 140 The frontal prescribed by Fathom was applied.

d. A knotted cord, wound tightly round the forehead as a means of torture. (Cf. French frontal.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > band or bonds

frontal1653

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xv. 48 To make your brains fly out of your heads with a frontal of cord.

a. A movable covering for the front of an altar, generally of embroidered cloth, silk, etc., but sometimes of metal.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > at front

hatchOE

frontal1381

pall?a1475

antepend1501

pendle1501

stole1513

suffront1516

altar cloth1522

front1533

altar front1539

antependium1594

fronton1749

altar frontal1836

altar facing1856

1381 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 233 An altar-cloth, with a frontel, for the great feast-days.

1459 Paston Lett. No. 336 I. 489 Item, j. auter clothe, withe a frontell of white damaske.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xiv. xi. f. 214/1 Ye goldin & silkin claithis..war distribut amang y^e abbays of scotland to be vestamentis & frontallis to yair altaris.

1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 49 A girdell a fruntall and 3 albes.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 305 The frontal, or coloured altar-cloth, should hang separately from the altar.

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 268 Frontals may be..formed of gold and silver plates.

†b. ? A hanging for the front of a bed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > hangings or valance

valancea1475

frontal1539

subbasmont1539

headcloth1545

pand1561

subpand1561

pend1578

sparvise1598

valencea1604

foot piece1653

valent1888

1539 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 47 Rufis of beddis.—Item..thre curtingis..with ane frontale.

1542 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 98 The nether frontale of the samyne bed.

c. A decorated front for a tomb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > decorated front for tomb

frontal1881

1881 Academy 5 Mar. 177/3 The whole frontal is enriched in a..somewhat tawdry manner by numerous false gems.

3. The façade of a building.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > façade

frontispiece1598

frontal1786

frontlet1808

1786 S. Henley Notes in tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 218 We are told of a strange fortress..whose frontal presented the following inscription.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxiii. 193 Vast hotels, with their gloomy frontals, and magnificent contempt of comfort.

1893 ‘M. E. Francis’ N.C. Village 202 Not a very imposing building..with its low frontal and irregular architecture.

†4. Architecture. (See quot. 1730.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > door or window ornaments

frontal1578

antepagment1658

frieze-panel1678

chambranle1692

rybat1720

placard1728

window screen1772

window dressing1774

midwall shaft1872

lambrequin1883

frieze-rail-

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 36 It hath foure windowes with frontals and galleries.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Frontal,..a little fronton or pediment sometimes placed over a little door or window.

†5. = frontier n. 3 (where see quot. 1412-20).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

frontaladj.

Brit. /ˈfrʌntl/, U.S.

/ˈfrən(t)l/

Etymology: < modern Latin frontālis, < front- , frōns : see front n. and -al suffix¹. Compare French frontal adjective. N.E.D. (1898) gives the pronunciation as (frǫ·ntăl; in sense 2 often frɒ·ntăl) /ˈfrɒntəl/; in sense 2 often /ˈfrʌntəl/.

1. Of or pertaining to the forehead, or to the corresponding part in the lower animals. Frequent in anatomical applications, as frontal artery, frontal bone, frontal sinus, frontal vein, etc. frontal tonsure: see quot. 1894.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [adjective]

browed1483

frontal1656

metopic1878

transfrontal1889

1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Vein Frontal-vein, the fore~head vein, a third branch of the outward throat vein, whence, mounting by the bottom of the nether jaw, it comes into the lips and nose, and thence ascends by the inside of the eye to the middle of the fore-head.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 87 The frontal Bone serves to contain, defend and sustain the anterior Lobes of the Brain.

1747 J. Parsons Crounian Lect. 9 in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 The true Frontal Muscle arises fleshy from the Process of the Os Frontis.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlv. 258 He conjectures the seat of this sense [smell] to reside in certain frontal organs.

1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 2 The frontal artery, a branch..of the ophthalmic.

1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain ii. 16 The front of the brain..is known as the Frontal Lobe.

1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 41 The tonsure was made by shaving off all the hair in front of a line drawn from ear to ear, and is called the frontal tonsure.

a. Of or pertaining to the forepart or foremost edge. frontal hammer n. see quot. 1881.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > front > [adjective] > of or relating to front

anteal1822

frontside1858

frontal1860

frontward1865

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 217 From the summit descended by a glissade to the frontal portion of the cavern.

1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xv. 300 The frontal or terminal moraine.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 135 Frontal hammer or Frontal helve, a forge-hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a ‘tongue’ immediately in front of the hammer-head.

b. Of an attack, etc.: Directed against or delivered upon the front.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > other types of attack

feigned1598

overvaulting1879

frontal1884

tip-and-run1891

hit and run1940

pre-emptive1941

banzai1945

surgical1965

kamikaze1966

1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 63 A magazine exposed to frontal fire only.

1886 N. L. Walford Parl. Generals of Civil War 43 With the aid of a frontal attack by the infantry.

c. [after Danish frontal (J. Lange 1892 as in frontality n.).] Of or pertaining to the façade of a building; also in Greek Art, pertaining to front or full-face view of a sculptured object (see frontality n.); similarly of a naked human body.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > frontal view

frontal1893

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [adjective] > relating to façade

frontal1893

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [adjective]

frontal1971

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > in which person's body is seen from the front

full-frontal1963

frontal1971

1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. (at cited word) The frontal effect of a fine building.

1905 P. Gardner Gram. Greek Art v. 57 One finds figures stooping, or kneeling, or in a variety of other attitudes; but the frontal law still holds.

1971 W. J. Burley Guilt Edged iii. 46 Full frontal nudity on the stage.

1971 Times 12 Aug. 8/2 His [sc. Linnæus's] sketch..of Andromeda polifolia shows a naked virgin in full frontal exposure.

1971 Times 23 Aug. 10/4 The many publications which print explicit colour photographs of full frontal female nudes..and in some cases male nudes.

3. quasi-n. = frontal bone at sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > front of skull > frontal bone

coronalc1400

brow-bonec1450

coronal bone1543

os frontis1578

postfrontal1840

bar of Michael Angelo1850

frontal1854

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 193 The frontals..rest by descending lateral plates, representing connate orbitosphenoids.

1857 W. R. Bullock tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery (ed. 2) 218 The frontal, forming the forehead, as well as the superior-anterior part of the face.

1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. ii. iv. 154 This was, indeed, a horse of great power..and such a head! the ear, the frontal, the nostril!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† frontalv.

Etymology: < frontal n.

Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To be a frontal or prelude to; to precede.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order

to go before ——OE

precedea1552

fore-run1570

prevene1596

frontal1652

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον (title page) Serving in this place, To frontal a Vindication of the honour of Scotland.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

n.c1320

adj.1656

v.1652

单词	frontal
释义	frontaln. /ˈfrʌntəl/ Forms: Middle English fro(u)ntel(l, Middle English–1500s fruntall(e, -telle, 1500s–1600s frontall, 1500s–1700s frontale, (1500s frontayle), 1600s– frontal. Etymology: Middle English frountel , < Old French frontel < late Latin frontāle , < front- , frōns : see front n. and -al suffix¹. Old French had also the form frontal (still preserved in some senses); in modern French, by confusion of suffixes, frontail and fronteau (compare medieval Latin frontellum in Promp. Parv.) are used in various specific applications of the general sense. †1. Something applied to the forehead. Obsolete. a. A band or ornament worn on the forehead. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band > types of frontalc1320 mitrea1382 counter-filletc1430 frontlet1478 mitra1638 head-tie1669 sévigné1826 sweat-rag1843 sphendone1850 agal1853 sweat-band1891 Alice band1944 c1320 Pol. Songs (Camden) 154 The bout and the barbet wyth frountel shule feȝe. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 585/2 Frontale, a frontell. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Frontayle for a womans head, some call it a fruntlet. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 416 His brother foorthwith tooke the roiall frontall called a diademe, and did it about his owne head. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Imprese of God i, in Recoll. Treat. 657 Looke how much difference there is betweene..the frontall of the hy-priest, and the Bells of horses. b. A piece of defensive armour for a horse's head; = front-stall n. (Cf. French frontail, fronteau.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for head testerc1386 cheveronnec1420 chamfron1465 shaffron1465 headpiece1530 chaffron1547 frontal1587 chieffront1598 frontlet1805 front-stall1825 1587 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. ix. 126 They arme their horses too; about his legges they tie bootes, and couer his head with frontals of steele. c. Medicine. A medicament applied to the forehead to cure headache. (Cf. French frontal, fronteau.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > analgesic > [noun] > for headache frontary1564 frontal1601 cephalalgic1726 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 75 It cureth the head-ach, if it be applied as a frontall to the forehead and temples. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 172 A Frontal with Mastic. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. li. 140 The frontal prescribed by Fathom was applied. d. A knotted cord, wound tightly round the forehead as a means of torture. (Cf. French frontal.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > band or bonds frontal1653 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xv. 48 To make your brains fly out of your heads with a frontal of cord. 2. a. A movable covering for the front of an altar, generally of embroidered cloth, silk, etc., but sometimes of metal. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > at front hatchOE frontal1381 pall?a1475 antepend1501 pendle1501 stole1513 suffront1516 altar cloth1522 front1533 altar front1539 antependium1594 fronton1749 altar frontal1836 altar facing1856 1381 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 233 An altar-cloth, with a frontel, for the great feast-days. 1459 Paston Lett. No. 336 I. 489 Item, j. auter clothe, withe a frontell of white damaske. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xiv. xi. f. 214/1 Ye goldin & silkin claithis..war distribut amang y^e abbays of scotland to be vestamentis & frontallis to yair altaris. 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 49 A girdell a fruntall and 3 albes. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 305 The frontal, or coloured altar-cloth, should hang separately from the altar. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 268 Frontals may be..formed of gold and silver plates. †b. ? A hanging for the front of a bed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > hangings or valance valancea1475 frontal1539 subbasmont1539 headcloth1545 pand1561 subpand1561 pend1578 sparvise1598 valencea1604 foot piece1653 valent1888 1539 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 47 Rufis of beddis.—Item..thre curtingis..with ane frontale. 1542 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 98 The nether frontale of the samyne bed. c. A decorated front for a tomb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > decorated front for tomb frontal1881 1881 Academy 5 Mar. 177/3 The whole frontal is enriched in a..somewhat tawdry manner by numerous false gems. 3. The façade of a building. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > façade frontispiece1598 frontal1786 frontlet1808 1786 S. Henley Notes in tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 218 We are told of a strange fortress..whose frontal presented the following inscription. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xxiii. 193 Vast hotels, with their gloomy frontals, and magnificent contempt of comfort. 1893 ‘M. E. Francis’ N.C. Village 202 Not a very imposing building..with its low frontal and irregular architecture. †4. Architecture. (See quot. 1730.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > door or window ornaments frontal1578 antepagment1658 frieze-panel1678 chambranle1692 rybat1720 placard1728 window screen1772 window dressing1774 midwall shaft1872 lambrequin1883 frieze-rail- 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 36 It hath foure windowes with frontals and galleries. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Frontal,..a little fronton or pediment sometimes placed over a little door or window. †5. = frontier n. 3 (where see quot. 1412-20). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). frontaladj. Brit. /ˈfrʌntl/, U.S. /ˈfrən(t)l/ Etymology: < modern Latin frontālis, < front- , frōns : see front n. and -al suffix¹. Compare French frontal adjective. N.E.D. (1898) gives the pronunciation as (frǫ·ntăl; in sense 2 often frɒ·ntăl) /ˈfrɒntəl/; in sense 2 often /ˈfrʌntəl/. 1. Of or pertaining to the forehead, or to the corresponding part in the lower animals. Frequent in anatomical applications, as frontal artery, frontal bone, frontal sinus, frontal vein, etc. frontal tonsure: see quot. 1894. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > forehead > [adjective] browed1483 frontal1656 metopic1878 transfrontal1889 1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Vein Frontal-vein, the fore~head vein, a third branch of the outward throat vein, whence, mounting by the bottom of the nether jaw, it comes into the lips and nose, and thence ascends by the inside of the eye to the middle of the fore-head. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 87 The frontal Bone serves to contain, defend and sustain the anterior Lobes of the Brain. 1747 J. Parsons Crounian Lect. 9 in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 The true Frontal Muscle arises fleshy from the Process of the Os Frontis. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlv. 258 He conjectures the seat of this sense [smell] to reside in certain frontal organs. 1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 2 The frontal artery, a branch..of the ophthalmic. 1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain ii. 16 The front of the brain..is known as the Frontal Lobe. 1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 41 The tonsure was made by shaving off all the hair in front of a line drawn from ear to ear, and is called the frontal tonsure. 2. a. Of or pertaining to the forepart or foremost edge. frontal hammer n. see quot. 1881. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > front > [adjective] > of or relating to front anteal1822 frontside1858 frontal1860 frontward1865 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 217 From the summit descended by a glissade to the frontal portion of the cavern. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xv. 300 The frontal or terminal moraine. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 135 Frontal hammer or Frontal helve, a forge-hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a ‘tongue’ immediately in front of the hammer-head. b. Of an attack, etc.: Directed against or delivered upon the front. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [adjective] > other types of attack feigned1598 overvaulting1879 frontal1884 tip-and-run1891 hit and run1940 pre-emptive1941 banzai1945 surgical1965 kamikaze1966 1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 63 A magazine exposed to frontal fire only. 1886 N. L. Walford Parl. Generals of Civil War 43 With the aid of a frontal attack by the infantry. c. [after Danish frontal (J. Lange 1892 as in frontality n.).] Of or pertaining to the façade of a building; also in Greek Art, pertaining to front or full-face view of a sculptured object (see frontality n.); similarly of a naked human body. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > frontal view frontal1893 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [adjective] > relating to façade frontal1893 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > [adjective] frontal1971 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] > in which person's body is seen from the front full-frontal1963 frontal1971 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. (at cited word) The frontal effect of a fine building. 1905 P. Gardner Gram. Greek Art v. 57 One finds figures stooping, or kneeling, or in a variety of other attitudes; but the frontal law still holds. 1971 W. J. Burley Guilt Edged iii. 46 Full frontal nudity on the stage. 1971 Times 12 Aug. 8/2 His [sc. Linnæus's] sketch..of Andromeda polifolia shows a naked virgin in full frontal exposure. 1971 Times 23 Aug. 10/4 The many publications which print explicit colour photographs of full frontal female nudes..and in some cases male nudes. 3. quasi-n. = frontal bone at sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > front of skull > frontal bone coronalc1400 brow-bonec1450 coronal bone1543 os frontis1578 postfrontal1840 bar of Michael Angelo1850 frontal1854 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 193 The frontals..rest by descending lateral plates, representing connate orbitosphenoids. 1857 W. R. Bullock tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery (ed. 2) 218 The frontal, forming the forehead, as well as the superior-anterior part of the face. 1859 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? (1st Edinb. ed.) I. ii. iv. 154 This was, indeed, a horse of great power..and such a head! the ear, the frontal, the nostril! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † frontalv. Etymology: < frontal n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To be a frontal or prelude to; to precede. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order to go before ——OE precedea1552 fore-run1570 prevene1596 frontal1652 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον (title page) Serving in this place, To frontal a Vindication of the honour of Scotland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1320adj.1656v.1652
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