Foreprize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Foreprize is a verb meaning (obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
Meaning
(obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
Example Sentences
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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.
Word Forms
- foreprizes
- foreprizing
- foreprized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forehold, provide, preassume, foretake, forecount, foretrust.
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