foreassign

present singular third person foreassigns · participle present foreassigning · participle past foreassigned · past foreassigned · alternative fore-assign

1. transitiveTo assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.

   By thy sword thy wretched lover's Slaughter foreassigned is not; Else in thy bewitching glances Shortcoming to find is not.

   1901, The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz: Odes, page 67

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   Before we come to the WORTHIES of this County, be it premised, that Northumberland is generally taken in a double acception; first, as a County (whose bounds we have foreassigned); […]

   1811, original 1608-1667, Thomas Fuller, John Nichols, The History of the Worthies of England, volume 2, page 187

   Here he plainly fore-assigns his resurrection from the dead by his own power, as the greatest evidence that he was what he pretended, the Son of God, in whose human nature the divine really inhabited.

   1858, Simon Patrick, Alexander Taylor, Sermons, page 498

   It cannot be well overlooked or denied that the occurrence of some most remarkable events, and this, too, at or very near the periods foreassigned for their occurrence by the upholders of the year-day theory, […]

   1880, Alfred Edersheim, Israel's Watchman

   There, in the calm of certitude unbating, They stand at gaze, The aeon's foreassigned return awaiting, Th'appointed days […]

   1909, John Payne, Flower O' the Thorn, page 113