Origin and history of fore-ordained

1620s, "small fore-and-aft rigged vessel with one mast, generally carrying a jib, fore-stay sail, mainsail, and gaff-topsail...

ldlate 14c., "decreed by fate," also "fraught with fate," from O French fatal (14c.) and directly from Latin fatalis "ordained...

An adjective prescript "ordained, appointed" is attested in English from early 15c....

Related: Ordained; ordaining....

fore-and-aft rigged vessel, originally with but two masts, 1716, perhaps from a New England verb related to Scottish scon...characteristic of a schooner has been defined as consisting essentially of two gaff sails, the after sail not being smaller than the fore...

A king-bolt (1825) was the large bolt connecting the fore part of a carriage with the fore-axle....

1722, originally nautical, also close-fights, "bulkheads fore and aft for men to stand behind in close engagements to fire...

"severe reproof (especially one given by a magistrate or authority) for a fault," 1630s, from French réprimande (16c.), earlier reprimende "reproof," from Latin reprimenda "that is to be repressed" (as in reprimenda culpa "fault to be checked," reprimenda res "thing that ought to

c. 1300, restoren, "to give back," also, "to build up again, repair; renew, re-establish; free from the effects of sin; bring back to a former and better state," from Old French restorer, from Latin restaurare "repair, rebuild, renew." This is from re- "back, again" (see re-) + -

late 13c., soverain, "superior, ruler, master, one who is superior to or has power over another," from Old French soverain "sovereign, lord, ruler," noun use of adjective meaning "highest, supreme, chief" (see sovereign (adj.)). Specifically by c. 1300 as "a king or queen, one wh