foresaid

[ fawr-sed, fohr- ]

adjective

1. aforementioned; aforesaid.

foresaid

/ ˈfɔːˌsɛd /

adjective

1. a less common word for aforesaid

Word History and Origins

Origin of foresaid¹

before 1000; Middle English forsaid, Old English foresǣd. See fore-, said ¹

Example Sentences

The foresaid high Grampian mountains abounded with spasmodiac opening, or excavated parts, that if a loud cry made at accomodious distant, they would sounded the same in such miraculous manner, that one apt to conceive that each parts of those spasmodic rocks imbibed the vociferation which is depressing gradually the sonorific sound to the expiry thereof.

From The New Yorker

The foresaid city of Canasia is situated in waters and marshes, which alwayes stand still, neither ebbing nor flowing: howbeit it hath a defence for the winde like vnto Venice.

From Project Gutenberg

Foresaid, fōr′sed, adj. described or spoken of before.

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We shall not suffer, by our good-wills, the foresaid lords and their complices to be called or accused in Parliament, nor suffer any forfeiture to be laid against them....

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The Earl was found guilty, on the 1st of June, of "art, part, foreknowledge, and concealing of the treasonable and unnatural murder foresaid," and was executed next day.

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