forpass

English

Etymology

From for- +‎ pass.

Verb

forpass (third-person singular simple present forpasses, present participle forpassing, simple past and past participle forpassed)

(intransitive, obsolete) To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto x:
  One day, as he forpassed by the plaine / With weary pace, he farre away espide / A couple […]
(transitive, obsolete) To go beyond, exceed; surpass.

Synonyms

(pass unnoticed): forthglide, slip by; see also Thesaurus:pass by
(go beyond): outstep, transgress; see also Thesaurus:transcend

Anagrams

pass for