"forelast" meaning in English

See forelast in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From fore- + last. In some instances of more recent use, perhaps also a calque of German vorletzte or Dutch voorlaatst. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|fore-|last}} fore- + last, {{calque|en|de|vorletzte|nocap=1|nocat=1}} calque of German vorletzte, {{calque|en|nl|voorlaatst|nocat=1|notext=1}} Dutch voorlaatst Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} forelast (not comparable)
  1. (rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last. Tags: nonstandard, not-comparable, possibly, rare Synonyms: penultimate, fore-last
    Sense id: en-forelast-en-adj-M3HX6Fjz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with fore-

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          "ref": "1909, Oscar Sonneck, compiler, Report on the \"Star-Spangled Banner\", \"Hail Columbia\", \"America\", \"Yankee Doodle\", Washington: Government Printing Office, page 73",
          "text": "The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas[…]",
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          "ref": "2012 [1973], J.M.R. Detry, Exercise Testing and Training in Coronary Heart Disease, Springer Netherlands, page 44",
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          "ref": "2012 [1992], Konrad Jacobs, Discrete Stochastics, Springer Basel AG, page 36",
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          "ref": "2003 [2002], Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Orlando: Harcourt, page 270",
          "text": "when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.",
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        "(rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last."
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          "text": "[T]he #x5C;dot#x7B;V#x7D;#x5F;#x7B;O#x5F;2#x7D; increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.",
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