"foreform" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1916, The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin - Volumes 1-5",
          "text": "Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter and force or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study that gives to us, whether as children or as men, …"
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          "text": "The most probable foreform must have been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi)."
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          "ref": "2007, David Arnold, Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal",
          "text": "The unconscious is full of artful subterfuge; it shapes our unplanned utterances with unforeseen forethoughts – or foreforms, if one permits such things, for the mind is a repository of hidden and ready formations, a dark library of grammars whose nature is to make possible the inspired and the rash: dreams, talk, solemn unbreakable vows.",
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        "(transitive) To form beforehand or in advance; prepare"
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