v. [f. FORE- pref. + CALL v.] trans. To call or ordain beforehand. (In first quot. perh. for *forcall = FORSPEAK, to bewitch.)
c. 1650. Suppl. to Vicarys Anat., 113. If a man be forecalled, 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., 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! |