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Etymology

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From fore- +‎ appoint.

Verb

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foreappoint (third-person singular simple present foreappoints, present participle foreappointing, simple past and past participle foreappointed)

  1. (transitive) To appoint beforehand.
    • 1606, William PERKINS (Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.), A Christian and plaine treatise of the manner and order of Predestination, and of the largenes of God's grace. First written in Latine ... and carefully translated into English by F. Cacot, and T. Tuke, page 40:
      but he did not foreappoint the workes of ungodlineſſe

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