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1599 J. Sylvester tr. J. Du Nesme Miracle Peace in Fraunce 14 They both attaine By war-like broyles their pre-appointed raigne.

a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 24 Your pre-appointed meeting of single combate with young Warbeck.

1740 T. Crosby Hist. Eng. Baptists IV. i. 3 They met together, some of them, at pre-appointed times.

1761 H. Brooke Earl of Essex i. 6 Rather concerted in the cabinet, Where spurious treasons are begot, and taught To call some pre-appointed victim, father.

1827 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 318 Whom wealth could not tempt..from their pre-appointed aims.

1853 Times 2 June 4/4 The Government of India, as at present constituted, comes to a natural and preappointed termination in the course of next year.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience ix. 200 The conversions..are..mainly those of very commonplace persons, kept true to a pre-appointed type by instruction, appeal, and example.

1932 Week-end Rev. 27 Feb. in Times 10 Dec. 3/4 It was simply a well-staged farce, in which Bench and Bar played their pre-appointed parts.

1990 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 19 98 We would quietly slip into the village from different directions, meet at a pre-appointed location, and then attack the army.