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ˈfore-purpose, n.
[f. fore- prefix + purpose.]
A purpose settled beforehand, previous design. Similarly foreˈpurpose v. trans., to purpose beforehand; foreˈpurposed ppl. a.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 43 A fore purposed choice. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 128 It is nothing els but his eternall determination fore purposed in his brest. 1587Golding De Mornay ix. 121 Vpon new deuise, or vpon euerlasting forepurpose. Ibid. 135 To haue brought to passe and perfected all that euer he had forepurposed, betokeneth an incomparable might and power. c1611Chapman Iliad xx. 17 The rest of these fore-purposes. 1829Southey Sir T. More I. 105 The mystery whereby the free will of the subject is preserved, while it is directed by the fore purpose of the state. |