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foreknow, v.|fɔəˈnəʊ|
Also 6 forknow.
[f. fore- prefix + know v.]
a. trans. To know beforehand, have previous knowledge of.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 141 Before all tymes, I was forknowen and ordeyned of god to be made. 1680Allen Peace & Unity 16 St. Paul..fore-knew there would be Heresies among them. 1732Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Prop. Gosp. Wks. III. 239 Are not the times and seasons fore⁓known only to God? 1817Shelley To Ollier 11 Dec., You..foreknew all that these people would say. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! (1889) 5/1 He foreknew it would give her pain.
absol.1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. xi. (ed. 4) 138 If God does not fore-know, he cannot foretell.
b. intr. To have previous knowledge of.
1703Rowe Ulyss. ii. i. 858 Thetis..Wept for her Son, fore⁓knowing of his Fate.
Hence foreˈknown ppl. a.; foreˈknowing vbl. n. and ppl. a. (whence foreˈknowingly adv.). Also † foreˈknowable a., that may be foreknown; † foreˈknower, one who foreknows.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 79 This Calkas..for to departen softely Took purpos ful this forknowinge wyse. 1423Jas. I. Kingis Q. cxlix, Fortune is..strangest evermore Quhare leste foreknawing..Is in the man. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 4 Hauynge her endelesly as presente in the syghte of hys Godly forknowynge. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xxv. 34 God the foreknower of al thinges. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 115 The fore knowne ill to man, would call Fore felt greefe, of fore knowne vnrest. 1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. xiii. 198 He does very imprudently serve his ends who seeingly and fore-knowingly loses his life in the prosecution of them. a1660Hammond Third let. Prescience §75 Wks. 1674. I. 598 The foreknower is not cause of all that are foreknown. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 773 Evil..Which neither his foreknowing can prevent. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 712 We cannot but grant such things therefore to be foreknowable. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxviii. (1862) VI. 143 Foreknowing and consistent agents. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 259 That regularity itself of God's creation sets forth those other foreknown operations of God. |