"forgather" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Scots forgather, foregather (“to gather up, assemble”), equivalent to for- + gather. Cognate with Dutch vergaderen (“to assemble”), German vergattern (“to assemble; to assign duty”).",
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        "third-person"
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      "form": "forgathered",
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          "ref": "1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725",
          "text": "“I can tell you where to find them,’ she said, ‘with a fair degree of certainty; they foregather almost every evening about this time at a rather disreputable old pub.’",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 8",
          "text": "They found themselves obliged to forgather in Perugia, where few of them wished to be – least of all the French cardinals who would have preferred not to be in Italy at all.",
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        "To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate."
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          "gather",
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          "together",
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        [
          "congregate",
          "congregate"
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        "(intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate."
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          "word": "collect"
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        {
          "word": "begather"
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          "word": "assemble"
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          "word": "foregather"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sǎbiram se",
          "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
          "word": "събирам се"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "sreštam se",
          "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
          "word": "срещам се"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "obštuvam",
          "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
          "word": "общувам"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
          "word": "se réunir"
        }
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  "word": "forgather"
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        "singular",
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          "gather",
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          "congregate",
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        "(intransitive) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate."
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    {
      "word": "collect"
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    {
      "word": "begather"
    },
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      "word": "foregather"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sǎbiram se",
      "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
      "word": "събирам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sreštam se",
      "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
      "word": "срещам се"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obštuvam",
      "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
      "word": "общувам"
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      "sense": "To assemble or gather together in one place",
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  "word": "forgather"
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