to arrange, determine, or appoint beforehand; to ordinate in advance.
From 'fore-' (before) combined with 'ordinate' from Latin 'ordinatus' (arranged, ordered). Similar to 'foreordain' but emphasizing arrangement.
This is a rarer variant of 'foreordain'—English had multiple near-synonyms from different Latin roots, and different writers preferred different versions, much like today's 'pre-plan' versus 'preplan.'
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