foreknowable en · ADJ
Etymology
From foreknow + -able.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That may be known in advance.
And ſuch are the Actions of all thoſe that are deeply lapſed into Corruption, and of thoſe fevv that are grovvn to a more Heroicall ſtate of Goodneſs: It is certainly foreknovvable vvhat they vvill do in ſuch and ſuch circumſtances.
1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XX, page 84:1911, J. A. Smith (translator), Aristotle (original), Nicomachean Ethics, "Introduction"