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† foreˈchoose, v. Obs.
[f. fore- prefix + choose v.]
trans. To choose beforehand, pre-elect.
a1400Prymer (1891) 27 God ches hyre and forches hire, And he maketh hire dwelle in his tabernacle. c1400Mandeville (1839) xii. 132 Sche was forchosen from the begynnynge of the World. 1553Short Catech. 38 a, We are forechosen..to euerlasting lyfe.
Hence foreˈchosen ppl. a.; foreˈchoosing vbl. n., the action of the vb.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1054/1 Not vnderstanding God..and how through all dangers he saueth his forechosen. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 109 Without framing out of her owne will the fore-chosing of any thing. |