aforetold

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English

Etymology

From afore- +‎ told.

Adjective

aforetold (not comparable)

  1. Told or discussed previously.
    • 2023 February 21, Armando Azua-Bustos et al., “Dark microbiome and extremely low organics in Atacama fossil delta unveil Mars life detection limits”, in Nature Communications, volume 14, London : Nature Portfolio, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      We took 17 samples representative of the different horizons along the stratigraphic sequence (some required additional later sampling as aforetold) that was represented in the form of a graphic log plot using Strater v5 (Golden Software).

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