[f. FORE- pref. + DOOM sb.] A doom or judgment pronounced beforehand; destiny.
1563. Sackville, Induct. Mirr. Mag., lxiii.
| And Ioves vnmooved sentence and foredoome | |
| On Priam kyng and on his towne so bent, | |
| I could not lyn but I must there lament. |
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, II. xvii. 125.
| Kings Councels, and the gods fore-doome, | |
| And what hid thoughts in each heart dwell, | |
| She knowes, and can for money tell. |
1839. Bailey, Festus (1854), 346.
| And lo! an opening scene in Heaven, wherein | |
| The foredoom of all things, spirit and matter, | |
| Is shewn, and the permission of temptation. |
