v. Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + PREPARE.] trans. To prepare beforehand. Hence Foreprepared ppl. a.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., III. xiv. 187. The most ambitious motions and thoughts of mans mind are quickly quell’d when dust is thrown on him, whereof his fore-prepared Sepulchre is an excellent remembrancer.
1648. Bp. Hall, Select Th., § 24. The evils which we look for, fall so much the less heavily, by how much we are fore-prepared for their entertainment.
1650. Fuller, A Pisgah-sight of Palestine, I. III. vi. 372. They were rivetted into holes fore-prepared of purpose.
