adv. Obs. rare–1. [f. FORE adv. + BACKWARD + -LY2.] Beginning at the wrong end, preposterously.
1581. Sidney, Apot. Poetrie (Arb.), 62. Exercise indeede wee doe, but that, very fore-backwardly: for where we should exercise to know, wee exercise as hauing knowne: and so is oure braine deliuered of much matter, which neuer was begotten by knowledge.
