foregranted
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]foregranted (comparative more foregranted, superlative most foregranted)
- Granted in advance.
- 1882, Arkansas. Supreme Court, George W Williams, Arkansas Reports:
- […] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, […]
- Presumed.
- 1916, The North American Review:
- There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”