forestart
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]forestart (plural forestarts)
- A head start.
- c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana
- John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven, but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection, and die there; […]
- c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana