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English
Etymology
From fore- + prize (“take”).
Verb
foreprize (third-person singular simple present foreprizes, present participle foreprizing, simple past and past participle foreprized)
- (obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, London: William Stansbye, published 1622, Book 5, p. 381:[…] 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 […]
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 Parliament, London, pages 15–16: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.
1688, King James II of England, His Majesties Most Gracious and General Pardon, London:Excepted, and always Foreprized out of this Our Pardon, all Treasons committed or done in the Parts beyond the Seas, or in any other Place out of this Our Realm […]