foreassign
foreassign verb: to assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.
Verb
foreassign (third-person singular simple present foreassigns, present participle foreassigning, simple past and past participle foreassigned)
- To assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.
- Before we come to the WORTHIES of this County, be it premised, that Northumberland is generally taken in a double acception; first, as a County (whose bounds we have foreassigned); […]1811, original 1608-1667, Thomas Fuller, John Nichols, The History of the Worthies of England, volume 2, page 187
- Here he plainly fore-assigns his resurrection from the dead by his own power, as the greatest evidence that he was what he pretended, the Son of God, in whose human nature the divine really inhabited.1858, Simon Patrick, Alexander Taylor, Sermons, page 498
Forms of foreassign
| third-person singular present | foreassigns |
|---|---|
| present participle | foreassigning |
| past participle | foreassigned |
| past | foreassigned |
| alternative form | fore-assign |
Origin of foreassign
From fore- + assign.
Questions about foreassign
- What does foreassign mean?
- Foreassign means to assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.
- What part of speech is foreassign?
- Foreassign is a verb.
- What is the past tense of foreassign?
- The past tense of foreassign is foreassigned.
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