foregather

English

Verb

foregather (third-person singular simple present foregathers, present participle foregathering, simple past and past participle foregathered)

1. Alternative form of forgather
   • 1908, Emerson Hough, Heart's Desire‎^[1]:

     One morning the twins foregathered in the parlor.

   • 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt‎^[2]:

     These were the same people with whom the judges who rendered these decisions were apt to foregather at social clubs, or dinners, or in private life.

   • 1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith‎^[3]:

     A little group of old gentlemen immediately foregathered with them.

   • 1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:

     The six drivers foregathered and the rather surprising discovery was made that five out of the six were teetotallers.

   • 1964 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 48:

     I was hoping for some further improvement when we were suddenly brought to a stand on the 1 in 125 before Stanley Junction, where a couple of freights and the 8.40 a.m. slow from Struan all had foregathered and helped to block the road.

References

• “foregather”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.