foreassign

• fore-assign

From fore- +‎ assign.

foreassign (third-person singular simple present foreassigns, present participle foreassigning, simple past and past participle foreassigned)

1. (transitive) To assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.
   • 1811, original 1608-1667, Thomas Fuller, ‎John Nichols, The History of the Worthies of England, volume 2, page 187:

     Before we come to the WORTHIES of this County, be it premised, that Northumberland is generally taken in a double acception; first, as a County (whose bounds we have foreassigned); […]

   • 1858, Simon Patrick, ‎Alexander Taylor, Sermons, page 498:

     Here he plainly fore-assigns his resurrection from the dead by his own power, as the greatest evidence that he was what he pretended, the Son of God, in whose human nature the divine really inhabited.

   • 1880, Alfred Edersheim, Israel's Watchman:

     It cannot be well overlooked or denied that the occurrence of some most remarkable events, and this, too, at or very near the periods foreassigned for their occurrence by the upholders of the year-day theory, […]

   • 1901, The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz: Odes, page 67:

     By thy sword thy wretched lover's Slaughter foreassigned is not;
     Else in thy bewitching glances Shortcoming to find is not.

   • 1909, John Payne, Flower O' the Thorn, page 113:

     There, in the calm of certitude unbating,
     They stand at gaze,
     The aeon's foreassigned return awaiting,
     Th'appointed days […]