Forequoted

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Cited before; quoted in an earlier part of the treatise or essay. archaic, not-comparable

    "But before we examine them, let us take notice of the Authors great contradiction to himſelf in this point, and that within very few Pages; falſhood is not onely diſſonant from truth, but alſo from it ſelf; for whereas in the forequoted place he makes his aſſertion on univerſal, that God ſeeth no ſin in perſons converted, and therefore there are no afflictions befall them becauſe of ſin: […]"

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"But before we examine them, let us take notice of the Authors great contradiction to himſelf in this point, and that within very few Pages; falſhood is not onely diſſonant from truth, but alſo from it ſelf; for whereas in the forequoted place he makes his aſſertion on univerſal, that God ſeeth no ſin in perſons converted, and therefore there are no afflictions befall them becauſe of ſin: […]"

Etymology

From fore- + quoted.

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