foregranted

English

Etymology

From fore- + granted.

Adjective

foregranted (comparative more foregranted, superlative most foregranted)

  1. Granted in advance.
    • 1882, Arkansas. Supreme Court, George W Williams, Arkansas Reports:
      [] together with all interest in all debts and choses in action of every description whatsoever: To have and to hold the above and foregranted portion, interest or share in the said estate to the said John B. Latham, his heirs and assigns forever, []
  2. Presumed.
    • 1916, The North American Review:
      There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”
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