Meanings
- not comparableDescribed, prescribed, or written (about) beforehand.
It's forescribed in the ancient scrolls, you see. Armageddon. June the Fifteenth 1995.
2013, Harry Pearson, The Far Corner2 more examples
He was accordingly, after the forescribed order and examination of that “confession," received by the Dayton presbytery and enrolled as a broth'er minister and member of that body, and has ever since served it in the function of examiner […]
1897, Frank Conover, Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, OhioA hybrid element method is developed for effective computation. In this project the structural response is investigated when the ground motion at the base of the structure is forescribed.
1980, Pauline H. Gurewitz, Hydraulic Research in the United States and Canada, 1978
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