forteach

English

Alternative forms

• foreteach

Etymology

From for- +‎ teach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈtiːt͡ʃ/, /fə(ɹ)ˈtiːt͡ʃ/

Verb

forteach (third-person singular simple present forteaches, present participle forteaching, simple past and past participle fortaught)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To unteach; contradict; misteach.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     The sacred thinges, and holy heasts foretaught.

Anagrams

• co-father