Meanings
present singular third person forthspeaks · participle present forthspeaking · past forthspoke · participle past forthspoken
- archaictransitiveTo reveal; divulge.
All I ask is, Do the existing applications of matter forthspeak any operation of intelligent power?
1854, George Jacob Holyoake, The Reasoner: Volume 161 more example
These are the names assigned to the manifestations of God in Christ. And besides these five, none others, pure and fundamental, are found in Christian or Divine Religion. These five Energies are all which Christ forthspeaks in us and reveals.
1854, Henry S. Sutton, Quinquenergia, or, proposals for a new practical theology
Origin
From forth- + speak. See Old English forþsprecan.
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