foreorder
See also: fore-order
English
Alternative forms
- fore-order
Etymology
From fore- + order.
Verb
foreorder (third-person singular simple present foreorders, present participle foreordering, simple past and past participle foreordered)
- (transitive, rare) To order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.
- 1863, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record, a Diary of American Events:
- And I foreorder and Ordain, That ere the sixth red moon shall wane, Those brothers' swords shall cross again, And the true shall smite down the false within the Virgin's waste domain.
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Noun
foreorder (plural not attested)
- (rare) An order made in advance.
- 1999, Panu Minkkinen, Thinking Without Desire: A First Philosophy of Law - Page 78:
- This guilt is an indication of a fore-order of Being-in-the-wrong (Im-Unrecht-sein), a fundamentally wrongful or “incorrect” mode of Being that constitutes Dasein's mundane existence.
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Related terms
- foreordain
- foreordination