To do or perform something beforehand or in advance; an archaic past tense suggesting prior action.
From 'fore-' + 'did' (past tense of 'do' from Old English 'don'). This is an archaic grammatical form rarely used in modern English.
This word is so archaic that it's barely used today, but it shows how English once more freely combined 'fore-' with verbs—we've mostly replaced it with 'pre-' in modern usage.
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