Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To think or contrive beforehand.
- To think, consider. contrive, or contemplate beforehand.
- See
forthink .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate.
- transitive verb obsolete To contrive (something) beforehend.
- intransitive verb obsolete To contrive beforehand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare To
plan (something) in advance;think ,consider , orcontrive beforehand;prognosticate . - verb intransitive, rare To
think about beforehand; toanticipate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This indeed I know, that we generally think before on our future actions, and that that forethinking is present, but the action whereof we forethink is not yet, because it is to come.
The Confessions 1999
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And anon a voice said to him, Flee, Launcelot, and enter not, for thou oughtest not to do it; and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Nay, said Gawaine, ye shall not but if I be beat; it shall not forethink me then if ye go after me.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And anon a voice said to him, Flee, Launcelot, and enter not, for thou oughtest not to do it; and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.
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Nay, said Gawaine, ye shall not but if I be beat; it shall not forethink me then if ye go after me.
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Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness.
Unspoken Sermons Third Series 1824-1905 1889
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And anon he would have entered, but a voice said, Flee, Sir Lancelot, and enter not, for and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.
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Ralegh vouches neither for the Amazons in the province of Topago, nor for these Ewaipanomas, 'For my part I saw them not, but am resolved that so many people did not all combine, or forethink to make the report.'
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"You may live to forethink [regret] the setting of her up, if it were so," was all he said.
Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness.
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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