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forelast

adj

Etymology

From fore- + last. In some instances of more recent use, perhaps also a calque of German vorletzte or Dutch voorlaatst.

  1. derived from *laistijaną✻
  2. derived from *laistijan✻
  3. derived from lǣstan
  4. derived from lasten
  5. prefixed as forelast — “fore- + last”

Definitions

  1. Next to last, second to last.

    • Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last[…]
    • The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas[…]
    • [T]he #92;dot#123;V#125;#95;#123;O#95;2#125; increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forelast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA