Noah Webster
Forego
FOREGO', verb transitive [See Go.]
1. To forbear to possess or enjoy; voluntarily to avoid the enjoyment of good. Let us forego the pleasures of sense, to secure immortal bliss.
2. To give up; to renounce; to resign. But this word is usually applied to things not possessed or enjoyed, and which cannot be resigned.
3. To lose.
4. To go before; to precede. obsolete