Word Meanings - FORETHINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak. 2. To contrive beforehend. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to FORETHINK)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• CONTRIVE
  To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• THINKER
  One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
• EVERYONE
  Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.
• THINKABLE
  Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.
• EVERYDAY
  Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.
• EVERYBODY
  Every person.
• FORETHINK
  1. To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak. 2. To contrive beforehend. Bp. Hall.
• EVERYWHEN
  At any or all times; every instant. "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.
• CONTRIVEMENT
  Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.
• EVERYTHING
  Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.
• PROGNOSTICATE
  To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden. Syn. -- To foreshow;
• ANTICIPATE
  1. To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not
• PROPHETICALLY
  In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.
• EVERY
  1. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• REVERY
  See REVERIE
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• UNTHINKER
  A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.
• PRECONTRIVE
  To contrive or plan beforehand.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• EVERICH; EVERYCH
  each one; every one; each of two. See Every. Chaucer.
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• FREETHINKING
  Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.
• UNBETHINK
  To change the mind of .
• FREETHINKER
  One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and
• UNTHINK
  To recall or take back, as something thought. Shak.