foregather

English

Verb

foregather (third-person singular simple present foregathers, present participle foregathering, simple past and past participle foregathered)

  1. Alternative form of forgather
    • 1908, Emerson Hough, Heart's Desire‎:
      One morning the twins foregathered in the parlor.
    • 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt‎:
      These were the same people with whom the judges who rendered these decisions were apt to foregather at social clubs, or dinners, or in private life.
    • 1919, Marie Conway Oemler, A Woman Named Smith‎:
      A little group of old gentlemen immediately foregathered with them.
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