Something that was mentioned or quoted earlier in a text or conversation.
From 'fore-' (before) + 'recited' (past tense of recite, from Latin 'recitare' meaning to read aloud). The combination describes something already spoken of.
This word appears frequently in old legal documents and classical texts where lawyers needed a way to say 'as I mentioned before'—it's the ancestor of the modern 'aforementioned' that legal documents still use today.
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