forevouched en · ADJ
Etymology
From fore- + vouched.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Avowed or affirmed in advance.
I meane hereafter to make a more liberall discourse of them in the forevouched booke of their liues, to be opened at large with all suche worthye actions as they haue performed.
1598, Francis Thynne, Animaduersions, page civ:Sure her offence Must be of such unnatural degree, That monsters it, or your forevouched affection Fall into taint,
c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:As a prophecy, it wins our deep admiration, in acarrying far back the distince representment and hope of the forevouched Messiah, having been delivered fourteen hundred years before, He came, in whom this and all ancient pre-announcements are fulfilled and remote antiquity, in such a record, is a high test of the genuineness of seership.
1855 August, “Moses and Christ”, in The Churchman's Monthly Magazine, volume 2, number 8, page 479: