Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Prior definition or limitation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Previous limitation.

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  • noun rare a previous limitation or definition

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  • The Divine prefinition, [or predetermination,] by which he foreordained the salvation of those persons by whom he had foreknown.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1 1560-1609 1956

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