† ˌfore-aˈgain, -aˈgainst, prep. Obs.
Also 5 foragayne, 6 foraganis, forayenst.
[f. fore prep. or adv. + again, against. Cf. foregainst, fornent.]
Directly opposite, facing.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxx. 178 For agayne the olde towne of Notyngham. 1506 Will of Wyttylbury (Somerset Ho.), Forayenst the place where my fader lieth. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 178/1 That part that lieth fore against France, was assigned to Edmund. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 87 Nathir to thay best partes in Albion in the Easte foraganes Irland. 1631 Heylin St. George ii. viii. 312 They..set, by two and two: every one with his fellow, which is foreagainst him in his stall. |