forelife

noun

Etymology

From Middle English forelyf, foorlyf, equivalent to fore- + life.

  1. inherited from forelyf

Definitions

  1. A former or previous life

    • It would be possible in this way to append an entire forelife to ones memory or more than one forelife.
  2. Early or primitive life

    Early or primitive life; protozoa

    • Because all they hoped to create was the lowest kind of life; in their own words, the protozoon, or forelife; whereas Babbage created the highest kind of life; as it should seem, the afterlife, [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for forelife. 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