Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Forego \Fore*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Forewent 2}; p. p. {Foregone}
(?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Foregoing}.] [See {Forgo}.]
1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.
--Herbert.
2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up;
to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already
enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.
All my patrimony,, If need be, I am ready to forego.
--Milton.
Thy lovers must their promised heaven forego.
--Keble.
[He] never forewent an opportunity of honest profit.
--R. L.
Stevenson.
Note: Forgo is the better spelling etymologically, but the
word has been confused with {Forego}, to go before.
Source : WordNet®
foregone
adj : well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: {bygone}, {bypast}, {departed}, {gone}]
forego
v : be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede
bronze tools" [syn: {predate}, {precede}, {antecede}, {antedate}]
[ant: {postdate}]
[also: {forewent}, {foregone}]
foregone
See {forego}