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foreorder

foreorder verb: to order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.

Verb

foreorder (third-person singular simple present foreorders, present participle foreordering, simple past and past participle foreordered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.
    • And I foreorder and Ordain, That ere the sixth red moon shall wane, Those brothers' swords shall cross again, And the true shall smite down the false within the Virgin's waste domain.1863, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record, a Diary of American Events

Noun

foreorder (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare) An order made in advance.
    • This guilt is an indication of a fore-order of Being-in-the-wrong (Im-Unrecht-sein), a fundamentally wrongful or “incorrect” mode of Being that constitutes Dasein's mundane existence.1999, Panu Minkkinen, Thinking Without Desire: A First Philosophy of Law - Page 78

Forms of foreorder

third-person singular presentforeorders
present participleforeordering
past participleforeordered
pastforeordered
alternative formfore-order

Origin of foreorder

From fore- + order.

Questions about foreorder

What does foreorder mean?
Foreorder means to order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.
What part of speech is foreorder?
Foreorder can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of foreorder?
The past tense of foreorder is foreordered.

Words near foreorder in the dictionary

  1. foreordainers
  2. foreordaining
  3. foreordainment
  4. foreordainments
  5. foreordains
  6. foreorder
  7. foreordered
  8. foreordering
  9. foreorders
  10. foreordinate
  11. foreordinated

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