v. [f. FORE- pref. + CALL v.] trans. To call or ordain beforehand. (In first quot. perh. for *forcall = FORSPEAK, to bewitch.)

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c. 1650.  Suppl. to Vicary’s Anat., 113. If a man be forecalled, doe this nine dayes, and hee shall be whole.

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1667.  Waterhouse, Fire Lond., 61. He predisposes and forecalls severalties to their Randezvous.

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1880.  L. A. Tollemache, in Jrnl. Educ., III. Oct., 225/2.

        Cats were his Cardinals made, and foxes and jackals his Bishops,
Each forecalled by the name of an unborn Cynic apostle—
Talleyrand, Machiavelli, La Rouchefoucauld, Ecclesiastes!

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