A rare or archaic verb meaning to melt before something else or beforehand.
From 'fore-' (before) + 'melt'. This follows the pattern of other 'fore-' verbs that were more productive in Middle and Early Modern English than in contemporary usage.
This is one of those words that shows how creative English speakers used to be with prefixes—you could theoretically combine 'fore-' with almost any verb to describe pre-action, though most combinations didn't survive.
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