forelast

adj

1. (nonstandard, not-comparable, possibly, rare)Next to last, second to last.

   “Certain disyllables, being both Nouns and Verbs, are distinguished by the Accent: the Verb having it in the last, and the Noun in the fore-last[…]”

   “The only difference between the 12 song books selected, which is at all worth mentioning, is that Aiken, Gantvoort, Jepson, Ripley, Zeiner have in the forelast bar—[sheet music] whereas[…]”

   “[T]he #92;dot#123;V#125;#95;#123;O#95;2#125; increased continuously until the end of the exercise test and the values collected during the forelast minute are 95% of the maximal values during the last minute of the text.”

   “The second statement is a special case of the forelast, and the forelast one follows from the last, whose proof is obvious[…]”

   “when the blight came on the crop the summer forelast he would not help us.”