▪ I. forprise, n.
(ˈfɔːpraɪz)
Also 7 foreprise.
[a. AF. forprise, f. forpris: see next.]
An exception or reservation.
| [1292 Britton ii. xv. §6 Sauntz fere nule forprise.] 1530 Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 15 The excepcions, forprises, and prouisions in this present pardon hereafter mencioned. 1602 W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. 10 Hee woulde haue leuied the Fine with a foreprise or exception of certaine acres. 1613 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 18 He shall make no foreprise in his Writ. 1676 in Coles. 1848 in Wharton Law Lex. |
▪ II. forprise, v.
(fəˈpraɪz)
Forms: 5–8 forprise, (6 -yse), 6–8 foreprise, (6 -ice, 7 -yse, forseprise), 7– foreprize.
[f. AF. forpris, -se, pa. pple. of forprendre, forsprendre to except, f. for(s-, for- prefix3 + prendre to take.]
trans. To take out, except, or reserve; esp. in Law phr. except(ed and forprised. Now rare.
| [1303 Lib. Custum. in Munim. Gildhallæ II. i. 168 Le Duc de Brabaunt..qe est forspris par nostre Seignour le Rei dEngleterre.] 1488 Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 3 §111 The Townes of Berwyk and Carlile oonly except and forprised. 1535 Act 26 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §4 Any games..the game of shotinge onely exceptyd and forprised. 1565 Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 384 Dame Ioane, I trow, ye will haue foreprised out of this number. 1620 Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy iii. iii, Fore-prizing none but such as haue the gift of continencie. 1686 Royal Proclam. 10 Mar. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2120/2 Excepted and always foreprized out of this Our Pardon, all Treasons [etc.]. 1797 Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Forprise, Leases and conveyances, wherein excepted and forprised is an usual expression. 1864 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 115 One individual alone foreprized. |