forescribed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fore- +‎ scribed.

Adjective[edit]

forescribed (not comparable)

  1. Described, prescribed, or written (about) beforehand.
    • 1897, Frank Conover, Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio:
      He was accordingly, after the forescribed order and examination of that “confession," received by the Dayton presbytery and enrolled as a broth'er minister and member of that body, and has ever since served it in the function of examiner […]
    • 1980, Pauline H. Gurewitz, Hydraulic Research in the United States and Canada, 1978:
      A hybrid element method is developed for effective computation. In this project the structural response is investigated when the ground motion at the base of the structure is forescribed.
    • 2013, Harry Pearson, The Far Corner:
      It's forescribed in the ancient scrolls, you see. Armageddon. June the Fifteenth 1995.
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