foregranted

adj — 2 senses

foregranted

adj

Etymology From fore- + granted.

1

Granted in advance.

  • […] 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, […]1882, Arkansas. Supreme Court, George W Williams, Arkansas Reports:
2

Presumed.

  • There always seems to me to be something concealed, a foregranted assumption, in the ecclesiastical mind, over which one stumbles.”1916, The North American Review:

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