ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED2.] Having (a) forehead.
1. With adj. or adv. prefixed, as high, low, well foreheaded. † Tender-foreheaded: modest, meek.
1591. [see FOREHANDED 1].
1659. Gauden, Tears of Church, I. iii. 47. The Gnosticks, Valentinians, Cataphrygians, Marcionites, Montanists, Manichees, Novatians, Arians, Aerians, Circumcelians, were tender-foreheaded, and simple-spirited people compared to those high-crested and Seraphick Sophisters, who study to shake and subvert, to defile and destroy all that was sacred or setled in the Church of England.
1670. Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 64. These People are of a middle stature, both Men and Women, and well-limbed, and roundish Faced, and well shaped, and low Fore-headed.
1892. Pall Mall G., 30 Jan., 3/1. High-foreheaded, colourless Madonnas.
† 2. Hardened with effrontery, brazen. Obs.
16[?]. Pain, Lett. to Feild, in Heylin, Hist. Presbyt. (1670), 278. Our zeal to Gods Glory, our love to his Church, and the due planting of the same in this For-headed Age, should be so warm and stirring in us, as not to care what adventure we give, or what censures we abide, &c.
