forechosen

Like the great world-tree that is also the cross in Jones's Vexilla Regis painting, the keel-timber begins 'forechosen and ringed/in the dark arbour-lands' (175).

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 2: David Jones: Material Words 2005

These men impress their fellow-men with the strange belief that matrimony was for them a pre-ordained, forechosen vocation, a thing to be done systematically according to reasons and rules, and the trivial mind that would fain dwell upon a time in such methodical lives, when heart predominated over head must apologize to the world of sentiment and pass on to some less sensitive point of consideration.

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera