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foreknowledge|fɔəˈnɒlɪdʒ|
[f. fore- prefix + knowledge.]
Knowledge of an event, etc. before it exists or happens; prescience.
1535Coverdale Judith ix. 6 Thy iudgmentes are done in thy euerlastinge fore knowlege. 1555Eden Decades Contents (Arb.) 45 The foreknowleage that the poet Seneca had of the fyndynge of the newe worlde. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 118 If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. Pref. 19 It is not foreknowledge of the punishment which renders us obnoxious to it. 1847Grote Greece ii. xi. III. 139 Money lent with the foreknowledge that the borrower will be unable to repay it. 1863Dicey Federal St. II. 210 [An astrologer promises to] give to the public a fore-knowledge of all the general affairs through life.
Hence foreˈknowledged ppl. a., known beforehand as liable to, destined to. Obs.—1
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 643 Thou art..fore⁓knowledged, as they saye, to damnation. |