Definition for FORE-GO'

FORE-GO', v.t. [See Go.]

  1. To forbear to possess or enjoy; voluntarily to avoid the enjoyment of good. Let us forego the pleasures of sense, to secure immortal bliss.
  2. To give up; to renounce; to resign. But this word is usually applied to things not possessed or enjoyed, and which can not be resigned.
  3. To lose.
  4. To go before; to precede. [Obs.] Shak.

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