foreday
nounEtymology From Middle English *foreday (attested only in plural foredais), equivalent to fore- + day.
- This same token should be of Luces the emperor, and of the Senators [of Rome], who with him came from Rome [thither]; ' and in the same wise, they there gan fall;' what Merlin in foredays said, all they it found there, as they did ere, and subsequently well everywhere; ere Arthur were born, Merlin it all [all it is] predicted.1847 [c. 1200], Frederic Madden, Layamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain, translation of original by Layamon:
- When the English horsemen shivered On the foredays' glorious strife, By his spearmen, and De Clifford Yielded both the wreath and life.1897, Dugald Ferguson, Poems of the Heart, page 79:
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- We bend our knees to the ground Seeking refuge from the One on High To redeem us from the Prophesies of the fore-days Consigning these daysafter The last days, as the evil days.2016, David Udo, “The Last Days”, in The Ripples:
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Dialectal The earlier part of the day; the morning or early afternoon.