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1603 A. Nixon Elizaes Memoriall sig. B2^v The Husbandman then gladly tild the ground, And sowed the same with graine in time of seed, Expecting interest thence to abound, As God had preappointed and decreed.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 179 Those did he pre-appoint and predestinate to be conformable to the image of his Sonne.

1708 J. Partridge Merlinus Liberatus sig. C^v It seems plain to me that there is an Order and Method pre-appointed by God in Nature.

1759 R. Spearman Lett. to Friend ii. 161 She would not have her love stirred up, or awakened until he please, that is, until the fulness of time preappointed for his advent.

1796 W. Huntington Light Shining in Darkness 93 As he preappointed us to obtain salvation by Christ with eternal glory, so he preappointed us to righteousness as our title to it.

1866 T. Carlyle E. Irving 131 I remember our..visit preappointed for us by Irving.

1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women ii. 73 The division neither can nor should be pre-established by the law... If the two persons chose, they might pre-appoint it by the marriage contract.

1912 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 20 740 There is no..temporary chairman preappointed to execute the will of a faction.

1961 B. Blanshard Reason & Goodness xiii. 357 It would mean that the whole range of human goods was preappointed by a set of instinctive demands which were not only nonrational in nature and origin, but [etc.].

2004 Post Mag. (Nexis) 8 Apr. 19 It has..become increasingly common for large corporates to pre-appoint an adjuster.