[FORE- pref.] A preliminary game; lit. and fig. Cf. AFTER-GAME.

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1594.  Kyd, Cornelia, IV. G ij b.

        The Gaules were but a fore-game fecht about
For ciuill discord, wrought by Caesars sleights.

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a. 1635.  Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 28. His play was chiefly at the fore-game.

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1643.  Trevor, in Carte, Collect. (1735), 260. Neither side can yet brag of the foregame.

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1741.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. i. 288. The Huntsman should therefore be wise and bold, good at both Fore and After-Game.

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