Forms: 5–8 forprise, (6 -yse), 6–8 foreprise, (6 -ice, 7 -yse, forseprise), 7– foreprize. [f. AF. forpris, -se, pa. pple. of forprendre, forsprendre to except, f. for(s-, FOR- pref.3 + prendre to take.]
trans. To take out, except, or reserve; esp. in Law phr. except(ed and forprised. Now rare.
[1303. Lib. Custum., in Munim. Gildhallæ, II. I. 168. Le Duc de Brabaunt … qe et forspris par nostre Seignour le Rei dEngleterre.]
1488. Act 3 Hen. VII., c. 3 § 111. The Townes of Berwyk and Carlile oonly except and forprised.
1535. Act 26 Hen. VIII., c. 6 § 4. Any games … the game of shotinge onely exceptyd and forprised.
1565. Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 384. Dame Iohane, I trowe, ye will haue foreprised out of this number.
1620. Bp. Hall, Hon. Mar. Clergy, III. iii. Fore-prizing none but such as haue the gift of Continency.
1686. Royal Proclam., 10 March, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2120/2. Excepted and always foreprized out of this Our Pardon, all Treasons [etc.].
1797. Tomlins, Law Dict., s.v. Forprise.… Leases and conveyances, wherein excepted and forprised is a usual expression.
1864. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng. III. 115. Otho Guillaume fully deserved the authority, and, one individual alone foreprized, he obtained the general support of the Burgundian Clergy and Nobility.
