Dictionary

foremake en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + make.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make beforehand; make or create in advance; premake.
   • Thus, while each fateful only is to himself, We can foretell our future; we foremake. 1877, Philip James Bailey, Festus, a Poem:
   • It proposed to abolish anything definite and categorical and put in its place that which is no more than situational, contextual, and ephemeral. It foremakes objective factuality for relativized subjectivity. 2012, Nicholas Rescher, Pragmatism: The Restoration of Its Scientific Roots:
   • [...] but, rising abruptly northward, they prevented the passage of armies except at the far north, and subordinate ranges curtained and defended the intervening valleys as foremade runways for invasive operations northward, while opening into supply sections to the south. 1914, Francis Marshal Pierce, The battle of Gettysburg:
   • [...] that the uncomposed song (“ inconditum carmen”) sung by the Persians, was unpleasing to the ears of strangers: thus distinguishing between that and the condita carmina (foremade songs) which he or the Grecians had commonly heard. 1832, The Gentleman's Magazine:
   • That blessed mate he found for him, foremade, In the recesses of the wilderness. 1859, James Scott, The Guardian Angel: A Poem in Three Books:

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