foregranted

foregranted

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ granted.

Adjective

foregranted (comparative more foregranted, superlative most foregranted)

1. 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, […]

2. 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.”