forewrite
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#FOREWRITECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#FOREWRITE fore-writen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#FOREWRITECategory:English terms derived from Old English#FOREWRITE forewrītan (“to proscribe, banish, write above, write before”), equivalent to fore- + writeCategory:English terms prefixed with fore-#WRITE.
Verb
forewrite (third-person singular simple present forewrites, present participle forewriting, simple past forewrote, past participle forewritten)Category:English lemmas#FOREWRITECategory:English verbs#FOREWRITECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FOREWRITECategory:Pages with entries#FOREWRITECategory:Pages with 1 entry#FOREWRITE
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#FOREWRITECategory:English intransitive verbs#FOREWRITE, archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#FOREWRITE) To write beforehand; write in advance.
- 1837, The London and Westminster Review:
- How know'st thou those dark words the Eternal Hand Writes in the Book of Time? If God foresees, God must forewrite; and what is all the future Save one vast chronicle of sibyl things!Category:English terms with quotations#FOREWRITE
- 1903, New England Society of St. Louis, Annual Reunion:
- It knows the precise time when to play "bull" or "bear" on 'change; can handle a public deficit or surplus with equal poise and facility; anticipate the nominations and forewrite the platforms of all the parties; designate when the government shall stand pat and when to cry fraud and demand a new deal.Category:English terms with quotations#FOREWRITE
- 1907, The Manhattan Quarterly:
- Especially in our condition of mixed life in this, our beloved country, you can act and react upon the neighbor by the personal influence of your moral conduct, builded on faith; and no pen can forewrite the incalculable benefit you may confer upon the civic, intellectual, domestic and religious experience of your day.