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▪ I. foredoom, n.|ˈfɔəduːm|
[f. fore- prefix + doom n.]
A doom or judgement pronounced beforehand; destiny.
1563Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. lxiii, Ioves vnmooved sentence and foredoome On Priam kyng. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. xvii. 125 Kings Councels, and the gods fore-doome..She knows. 1839Bailey Festus (1854) 346 An opening scene in Heaven, wherein The fore⁓doom of all things..Is shewn.
▪ II. foredoom, v.|fɔəˈduːm|
[f. fore- prefix + doom v.]
1. trans. To doom beforehand:
a. to condemn beforehand (to a destiny, or to do something);
b. to foreordain, predestine (a thing).
a.1608Shakes. Lear v. iii. 291 (Qo. 2) Your eldest daughters haue fore-doom'd [Qo. 1 foredoome; Fol. foredone] themselues. 1647May Hist. Parl. i. ii. 23 Men..fore⁓doomed by an Oracle to a bad fortune. 1715–20Pope Iliad xvi. 545 Sons of gods, foredoom'd to death, Before proud Ilion. 1808J. Barlow Columb. iv. 20 O hapless prelate!.. Foredoom'd with crimes a fruitless war to wage. 1855H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. viii. 270 The ruthless judges, who had foredoomed her. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 150 His efforts were, for the present foredoomed to failure.
b.1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 162 Foredooming that which is to be, and is not, till so foredoom'd. 1712–4Pope Rape Lock iii. 5 Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall fore⁓doom Of foreign tyrants. 1814Southey Roderick xi, A field..For bloody theatre of famous deeds Foredoom'd. 1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile Poems 1850 I. 62 Had God foredoomed despair, He had not spoken hope.
2. To determine beforehand as a doom; to forecast, foreshadow, presage.
a1592Greene George a Greene Wks. (Rtldg.) 261/2 A wizer wizard never met you yet, Nor one that better could foredoom your fall. 1818Keats Endym. i. 252 Broad leaved fig trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage.
Hence foreˈdoomed ppl. a. Also foreˈdoomer.
1591Troub. Raigne K. John ii. (1611) 75 Disturbed thoughts, foredoomers of mine ill. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arcite iii. 636 As Fate foredoom'd, and all things tend..to their appointed End. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxv. 603 To face..the perils of a foredoomed enterprise. |
