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Word Meanings - FOREKNOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand. Who would the miseries of man foreknow Dryden.

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  • FOREKNOWER
    One who foreknows.
  • FORESEE
    1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
  • DIVINER
    1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
  • PREDICTIONAL
    Prophetic; prognostic.
  • PREDICTOR
    One who predicts; a foreteller.
  • FOREKNOWINGLY
    With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.
  • FORETELLER
    One who predicts. Boyle.
  • DIVINELY
    1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson. 2. By the agency or influence of God. Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay.
  • FORECASTER
    One who forecast. Johnson.
  • FOREKNOWLEDGE
    Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
  • FORECAST
    1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24. 2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for. It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to
  • FORETELL
    To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton. Syn. -- To predict; prophesy; prognosticate;
  • FOREKNOW
    To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand. Who would the miseries of man foreknow Dryden.
  • FOREBODEMENT
    The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.
  • FOREBODER
    One who forebodes.
  • DIVINERESS
    A woman who divines. Dryden.
  • FORESEEN
    , or p. p. Provided; in case that; on condition that. One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.
  • DIVINENESS
    The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.
  • FOREBODE
    1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation,
  • DIVINEMENT
    Divination.
  • UNFORESEE
    To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
  • UNPREDICT
    To retract or falsify a previous prediction. Milton.

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