Fore-spræc, fóre-spræc

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

fore-spræc, fóre-spræc

Take these together under fore-sprǽc, and add: (1) speech on behalf of a person or thing. (a) advocacy:--Hé ús gefreóð mid his foresprǽce from écum wítum advocatione sua nos ab aeternis suppliciis liberans, Past. 261, 10. Cam Putrael tó Boia and bed his forespéce tó Ælfríce. Þá sette Boia þás spéce wið Ælfríce; ꝥ wes ꝥ Putrael sealde Ælfríce viii oxan . . . and . . . gef Boia sixtig penga for þére forspǽce, Cht. E. 274, 3-6. Tó foresprǽce ꝥ se cwyde standan móste, Cht. Th. 501, 13. Ryhtes wyrðe for míre forspǽce, 170, 4. (b) excuse:--Forespréc nabbas they have nothing to say for themselves; excusationem non habent, Jn. L. 15, 22. (2) speech by the representative of another, what is said by a sponsor:--Ðeáh þæt cild sprecan ne mage þonne hit man fullað, his freónda foresprǽc (forspǽc, ) forstent him eall þæt ylce þe hit sylf sprǽce, Wlfst. 110, 4: 38, 16. (3) what has been already said, the contents of a document:-- Ðeós forespréc and þás gewriotu ðe hér beufan áwreotene stondaþ (the reference is to the provisions of a will), Cht. Th. 483, 8. (4) preliminary speech, a preface, prologue:--Foresprǽce in prologo, i. in sequentis operis praefatione, An. Ox. 2298. Þǽra láreówa naman ic áwrát on ðǽre Ledenan foresprǽce (v. Hml. Th. i. 1), Hml. Th. ii. 2, 9: Hml. S. 15, 108. [v. N. E. D. fore-speech. O. H. Ger. fora-spráhha prologus, praefatio.] fore-spræc

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