forelast

alternative fore-last

1. nonstandardnot comparablepossiblyrareNext to last, second to last.

   when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.

   2003 [2002], Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Orlando: Harcourt, →ISBN, page 270

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   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[…]

   1633, Charles Butler, The English Grammar, Oxford, page 57, spelling modernized

   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[…]

   1909, Oscar Sonneck, compiler, Report on the "Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle", Washington: Government Printing Office, page 73

   [T]he #92;dot#123;V#125;#95;#123;O#95;2#125; 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 [1973], J.M.R. Detry, Exercise Testing and Training in Coronary Heart Disease, Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 44

   The second statement is a special case of the forelast, and the forelast one follows from the last, whose proof is obvious[…]

   2012 [1992], Konrad Jacobs, Discrete Stochastics, Springer Basel AG, →ISBN, page 36

   Synonyms: penultimate