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English
Etymology
From fore- + quoted.
Adjective
forequoted (not comparable)
- (archaic) Cited before; quoted in an earlier part of the treatise or essay.
- Synonym: aforequoted
1648, Anthony Burgess, The True Doctrine of Justification: , London: Robert White, for Thomas Vnderhil , page 33:But before we examine them, let us take notice of the Authors great contradiction to himſelf in this point, and that within very few Pages; falſhood is not onely diſſonant from truth, but alſo from it ſelf; for whereas in the forequoted place he makes his aſſertion on univerſal, that God ſeeth no ſin in perſons converted, and therefore there are no afflictions befall them becauſe of ſin: […]
1716, John Shuttleworth, A Perswasive to Union: , London: W. Taylor, J. Cooke, , page 34:And the We who are redeemed here, are thoſe in the forequoted place, who are ſaid to be in the Chriſt Jeſus, who walk not after the Fleſh, but after the Spirit; […]
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “forequote, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “forequoted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.