Verb

(en verb)

To predestine to a doom.

* Dryden

Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

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, year=1922 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Chessmen of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure. }}

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, year=1932 , year_published=2010 , author=(Duff Cooper) , title=Talleyrand , publisher=The Folio Society , page=35 , passage=They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.}}