foredispose

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English

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Etymology

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From fore- +‎ dispose.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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foredispose (third-person singular simple present foredisposes, present participle foredisposing, simple past and past participle foredisposed)

  1. (transitive) To bestow beforehand.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; [], London: [] Iohn Williams [], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
      King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for foredispose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)