Chapter Fordone to Forehand of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Foreclose
(Fore*close") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreclosed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreclosing ] [F. forclos, p. p. of forclore to exclude; OF. fors, F. hors, except, outside (fr. L. foris outside) + F. clore to close. See Foreign, and Close, v. t.] To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

Carew.

To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. — To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically correct, but often used to signify) the obtaining a judgment for the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.

Foreclosure
(Fore*clo"sure) n. The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Foreconceive
(Fore`con*ceive") v. t. To preconceive; to imagine beforehand. [Obs.] Bacon.

Foredate
(Fore*date") v. t. To date before the true time; to antedate.

Foredeck
(Fore"deck`) n. (Naut.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

Foredeem
(Fore*deem") v. t. To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. [Obs.] Udall.

Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you
An idle meteor.

J. Webster.

Foredeem
(Fore*deem"), v. i. [Cf. Foredoom.] To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.]

Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come.

Genevan Test.

Foredesign
(Fore`de*sign") v. t. To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

Foredetermine
(Fore`de*ter"mine) v. t. To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

Foredispose
(Fore`dis*pose") v. t. To bestow beforehand. [R.]

King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.

Fuller.

Foredoom
(Fore*doom") v. t. [Cf. Foredeem.] To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

Dryden.

Foredoom
(Fore"doom`) n. Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

Forefather
(Fore"fa`ther) n. One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves.

Burke.

Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

Forefeel
(Fore*feel") v. t. To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.]

As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds.

Chapman.

Forefence
(Fore`fence") n. Defense in front. [Obs.]