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forecreated

forecreated adjective: created beforehand.

Adjective

forecreated (not comparable)

  1. Created beforehand
    • Plato propoundeth a Question (saith he) whether the Worlde was created after the patterne of a thing forecreated, or of a thing without beginning.1592, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion
    • [yet] to the Jews, who roundly deny this exposition, and to the Arians, who accept it (and yet call Christ a creature, as forecreated for an assistant in this second creation); […]1855, John Donne, Essayes in divinity

Forms of forecreated

alternative formfore-created

Origin of forecreated

From fore- + created.

Questions about forecreated

What does forecreated mean?
Forecreated means created beforehand.
What part of speech is forecreated?
Forecreated is an adjective.

Words near forecreated in the dictionary

  1. forecourts
  2. forecover
  3. forecovers
  4. forecoxa
  5. forecoxae
  6. forecreated
  7. forecrier
  8. forecrop
  9. forecrops
  10. forecrown
  11. forecrowns

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