foredispose

From fore- +‎ dispose.

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɔː(ɹ)dɪsˈpəʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz

foredispose (third-person singular simple present foredisposes, present participle foredisposing, simple past and past participle foredisposed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To bestow beforehand.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

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

• “foredispose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.