foreprize
foreprize verb: to assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
Verb
foreprize (third-person singular simple present foreprizes, present participle foreprizing, simple past and past participle foreprized)
- To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
- […] 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 […]1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, Book 5, p. 381
- 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.1643, “Certaine observations collected out of a treatise called, The difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian rebellion”, in A Discourse upon Questions in Debate between the King and...
Forms of foreprize
| third-person singular present | foreprizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | foreprizing |
| past participle | foreprized |
| past | foreprized |
Origin of foreprize
From fore- + prize (“take”).
Questions about foreprize
- What does foreprize mean?
- Foreprize means to assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
- What part of speech is foreprize?
- Foreprize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of foreprize?
- The past tense of foreprize is foreprized.
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