foreˈcall, v.
[f. fore- prefix + call v.]
trans. To call or ordain beforehand. (In first quot. perh. for *forcall = forspeak, to bewitch.)
| c 1650 Suppl. to Vicary's Anat. 113 If a man be fore⁓called, doe this nine dayes, and hee shall be whole. 1667 Waterhouse Fire Lond. 61 He predisposes and forecalls severalties to their Randezvous. 1880 L. A. Tollemache in Jrnl. Educ. Oct. 225 Cats were his Cardinals made..Each forecalled by the name of an unborn Cynic apostle. |