foreprize

English

Etymology

fore- +‎ prize (“take”)

Verb

foreprize (third-person singular simple present foreprizes, present participle foreprizing, simple past and past participle foreprized)

1. (obsolete) To assume, take for granted; to provide for beforehand; to anticipate.
   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie‎^[1], London: William Stansbye, published 1622, Book 5, p. 381:

     […] God hath foreprized things of the greatest weight, and hath therein precisely defined, as well that which euery man must performe, as that which no man may attempt […]

   • 1643, “Certaine observations collected out of a treatise called, The difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian rebellion”, in A Discourse upon Questions in Debate between the King and Parliament‎^[2], London, pages 15–16:

     I denied that Bishops had authority to prescraibe Conditions to Kings, when they Crowned them; but I never denyed that the People might preserve the foundation, freedome, and forme of their Common-wealth, which they foreprized when they first consented to have a King.

   • 1688, King James II of England, His Majesties Most Gracious and General Pardon‎^[3], London:

     Excepted, and always Foreprized out of this Our Pardon, all Treasons committed or done in the Parts beyond the Seas, or in any other Place out of this Our Realm […]