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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

foreorder en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + order.

Meanings

  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:

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Relateds

foreordain · foreordination

foreorder en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + order.

Meanings

  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:

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