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ˌfore-aˈppoint, v. arch.
[f. fore- prefix + appoint.]
trans. To appoint beforehand.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 148 Whosoeuer..hope to knowe more of Christ than god hath foreapointed them by his secret decree. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 485 To dissolve the meeting of the Councill that day, albeit it was fore-appoynted for answering the subjects petitions. 1726–31Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. (1743) II. xvii. 126 Days and Places which you..shall thereunto fore-appoint. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. iii. (1852) 62 So steadily had this purpose been entertained, and so clearly this event foreappointed that, [etc.]. 1886J. Payne Decameron I. 33 The place fore-appointed of them.
Hence fore-aˈppointed ppl. a.; fore-aˈppointing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also fore-aˈppointment, previous appointment, preordination.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 643 The ende of pre⁓destination or foreappointment is Christ. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 413 Her fore-appointed end. 1589Greene Tullie's Loue Wks. (Grosart) VII. 189 The aspectes of the fore-appointing stars. 1654Trapp Comm. Job xvi. 11 The foreappointed affliction. 1656― Comm. Gal. iv. 9 [God's] gracious fore-knowing and fore-appointing of us to eternal life. 1677Hale Contempl. ii. Lord's Prayer 105 By the determinate Counsel and Fore appointment of God. 1833Keble Serm. vii. (1848) 166 The fore-appointed safeguard of the integrity of our Lord's holy sacraments. |