foreready

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ ready. Compare Dutch voorbereiden.

Verb

foreready (third-person singular simple present forereadies, present participle forereadying, simple past and past participle forereadied)

1. (transitive) To make ready ahead of time; prepare in advance.
   • 1995, Percy Grainger's Gift to the Land of His Birth:

     If l am a lifemaster l have the same "right" to a museum as these other men & have a full right to foreready for it while l am alive.

   • 2010, H. N. Turteltaub, Justinian:

     Plainly, he had forereadied them. I thought more of him for that, not less, having had many hours of my life wasted by lackwits unprepared for the audiences they had gained with me.