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