Home › Words › F › foreassignforeassignforeassign means to assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.EtymologyFrom fore- + assign.verbTo assign beforehand or in advance; preordain.e.g.“Before we come to the WORTHIES of this County, be it premised, that Northumberland is generally taken in a double acception; first, as a County (whose bounds we have foreassigned); […]” — 1811, original 1608-1667, Thomas Fuller, John Nichols, The History of the Worthies of England, volume 2, page 187:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).