单词 | aforeknown |
释义 | > as lemmasaforeknown a. Prefixed to verbs and verbal derivatives in the senses ‘previously, beforehand’, ‘in advance’, as aforesee, aforeknown, aforerunning. ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 6716 In on þrawe Fiftene þousand þer were yslawe, And er weren..Afor yslawe þritten þousinde. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 502 (MED) Which lettith and afore barrith..the comaundement of God in his lawe of kinde to be doon. 1540 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 7 The vtilite..of oure said place alwais vnderstand, considderit, and afoir sene. a1564 T. Becon Christ's Chron. (1844) 552 Afore-seeing the grievous plagues. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 216 The signes afore-running or demonstrating of the instant disease are these. 1700 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 22 731 The afore-acted Evil that his Soul did in its other Life. 1740 Deed of Sale in A. Fellows Wayfarer's Compan. (1937) vii. 91 All Sittings kneelings and appurtenances in or belonging to the aforegranted seat or pew. 1828 Minutes Evid. Sel. Comm. Sc. Entails Bill 103 in House of Lords Sessional Papers 1801–33 CCXXXV Heirs sued for provisions to children shall be discharged upon aforegiving to a trustee..one third part of the clear proceeds of the estate. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 35 Only as life wears on, do all its aforeshapen lines come into light. 1914 H. S. Truman Let. 26 Jan. in Dear Bess (1998) 157 I haven't the brains to aforethink it. 2007 G. Blum Islands of Agreement v. 243 The seeming inevitability of their situation, its aforeknown cadences, its predictable routines. < as lemmas |
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