foreprize

English

Etymology

fore- + prize (take)

Verb

foreprize (third-person singular simple present foreprizes, present participle foreprizing, simple past and past participle foreprized)

  1. (obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
    • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, 1622, Book 5, p. 381,
      [] God hath foreprized things of the greatest weight, and hath therein precisely defined, as well that which euery man must performe, as that which no man may attempt []
    • 1643, “Certaine observations collected out of a treatise called, The difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian rebellion” in A Discourse upon Questions in Debate between the King and Parliament, London, pp. 15-16,
      I denied that Bishops had authority to prescraibe Conditions to Kings, when they Crowned them; but I never denyed that the People might preserve the foundation, freedome, and forme of their Common-wealth, which they foreprized when they first consented to have a King.
    • 1688, King James II of England, His Majesties Most Gracious and General Pardon, London,
      Excepted, and always Foreprized out of this Our Pardon, all Treasons committed or done in the Parts beyond the Seas, or in any other Place out of this Our Realm []
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