Fore-word
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fore-word
According to the Old English Dictionary:
es;
- fore-word
- n. Take here for-word in Dict., and add: A proviso, condition:--Ðat land æt Áctúne twégra manna dæg, ealswá ðá foreword sprecað, C. D. vi. 148, 30. Standan ðá forword betweónan ðan abbode and Ceólríce, iii. 352, 3. Syndon ðis þá forword þe Orecy and þá gegyldan gecoren habbað, iDan. for-ord a proviso.] v. fore-wyrd, fore-weard. fore-word