foremeant

English

Etymology

fore- +‎ meant

Adjective

foremeant (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Intended beforehand; premeditated.
   • 1879, Edward Williams Byron Nicholson, The Rights of an Animal:

     it must be clearly understood that no general enquiry into the relations between man and the animal kingdom was foremeant

Related terms

• foremeaning

References

• “foremeant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.