a. 1400. Prymer (1891), 27. God ches hyre and forches hire. And he maketh hire dwelle in his tabernacle.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xii. 132. Sche [Marye] was forchosen from the begynnynge of the World.
1553. Short Catech., 38 a. We are forechosen … to euerlasting lyfe.
Hence Forechosen ppl. a.; Forechoosing vbl. sb., the action of the vb.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 1054/1. Not vnderstanding God, what diuersitie he suffereth to blind still the wilfull, and how through all dangers he saueth his forechosen.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 109. Without framing out of her owne will the fore-chosing of any thing.
