Forewrite
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To write beforehand; write in advance. ambitransitive, archaic
"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!"
Example
More examples"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!"
Etymology
From Middle English fore-writen, from Old English forewrītan (“to proscribe, banish, write above, write before”), equivalent to fore- + write.
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