Past tense of 'forepass'; having gone before or preceded something else.
From 'forepass' in past tense, using the regular '-ed' ending. The root combines 'fore-' with 'passed,' itself the past tense of 'pass' from Latin.
This is an archaic form that shows how English speakers once used 'fore-' more freely to create verb combinations—today we'd usually say 'preceded' instead, but 'forepassed' demonstrates how flexible English grammar can be.
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