forgreithen

== Middle English == === Etymology === for- +‎ greithen. === Verb === fōrgreithen (third-person singular simple present forgreitheth, present participle forgreithende, forgreithynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle forgreithed) To get ready beforehand; to prepare. c. 1400, Psalm 20:12 [now 21:12], in the Northern Verse Psalter (Surtees Psalter) [British Library, Cotton Vespasian D.7 manuscript]; published in Joseph Stevenson, editor, Anglo-Saxon and Early English Psalter: Now First Printed from Manuscripts in the British Museum, volume I, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, Parliament Street; William Pickering, Piccadilly; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, 1843, OCLC 832497574, page 59: ==== Alternative forms ==== for-greithen, fore-greithen, foregreithen, forgraith ==== Derived terms ==== forgreithing === References === “fōr(e-greithen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 October 2016.