v. [f. FORE- pref. + MENTION.] To mention beforehand.
1660. Ingelo, Bentivolio and Urania, II. 20. Advising them never to pretend to the honourable Name of Hippocrates his Disciples, or attempt to cure others, whilst they found themselves sick of the Diseases which he had forementioned. Ibid., II. 252. They were permitted to accomplish, not for the Satisfaction of their own Cruelty, but for the Reason which I fore-mention’d, and for which Villany they were severely punish’d.
Hence Forementioned ppl. a. previously mentioned. Also ellipt.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, ix. 133. The thing that wayteth to haue being lyfe and mouing at his hand, that is to wit the forementioned Chaos.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, I. xiv. 19. Yet hath God his wayes and means to deliver the righteous in the forementioned cases, and all other cases whatsoever.
1697. Locke, in Fox Bourne, Life, II. xiii. 383. In the fore-mentioned new law to be enacted, it be further provided that working schools be set up in every parish.
1750. trans. Leonardus’ Mirr. Stones, 145. There are other species of them of divers Colours, and variegated with little Spots, which are called False Emeralds; which with the fore-mention’d, make up the Number Twelve.
