Verb
To assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.
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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); […]
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.
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, […]
By thy sword thy wretched lover's Slaughter foreassigned is not; Else in thy bewitching glances Shortcoming to find is not.
There, in the calm of certitude unbating, They stand at gaze, The aeon's foreassigned return awaiting, Th'appointed days […]