forewrite
To write beforehand; write in advance.
Verb
- To write beforehand; write in advance.
- 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! - 1837, The London and Westminster...
- 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;...
- 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...
Origin
From Middle English fore-writen, from Old English forewrītan (“to proscribe, banish, write above, write before”), equivalent to fore- + write.