foretake

foretake
a) To take, receive, or adopt beforehand; assume.

You shall bring and lay in our hands tne product of your activity: we will divide it into two parts — the one shall be ours; it shall be sacred; you shall call it tithe; we will foretake it [...]

b) To take or choose before another (option); prefer.

Enraptures a man to foretake his pleasure, And capture a woman to partake her treasure.


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