forelast
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See also: föreläst
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From fore- + last. In some instances of more recent use, perhaps also a calque of German vorletzte or Dutch voorlaatst.
Adjective
forelast (not comparable)
- (rare, now possibly nonstandard) Next to last, second to last.
- Synonym: penultimate
- 1633, Charles Butler, The English Grammar, Oxford, page 57, spelling modernized:
- Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last […]
- 1909, Oscar Sonneck, compiler, Report on the "Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle", Washington: Government Printing Office, page 73:
- The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas […]
- 2012 [1973], J.M.R. Detry, Exercise Testing and Training in Coronary Heart Disease, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 44:
- [T]he increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.
- 2012 [1992], Konrad Jacobs, Discrete Stochastics, Springer Basel AG, →ISBN, page 36:
- The second statement is a special case of the forelast, and the forelast one follows from the last, whose proof is obvious […]
