| 释义 |
foreseen, pple. and ppl. a.|fɔəˈsiːn|
[pa. pple. of foresee.]
†1. pple. That has seen beforehand; previously acquainted or instructed in; aware of. to make foreseen: to acquaint or inform previously. Obs.
1569Murray To L.B. (Harl. Lib. 37. B. 9 fo. 43) Her highness had been foreseen in the dukes design. 1577Lochlevin Let. to Morton in Robertson Hist. Scot. App. 72, I tho't good to make your grace forseen of the same. 1597Lowe Chirurg. iv. vii. (1634) 89 For the which the parents and friends would be foreseene of the danger which may happen. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1678) II. 490 Kersewell was rebooked for accepting the Bishoprick of the Isles, without making the Assembly foreseen.
2. ppl. a. That is seen beforehand; also, † known beforehand by sight to.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 573/1 An elect foresene to god from the beginning. a1600Hooker Answ. Travers' Supplic. §22 They are not reiected..without a fore-seene worthinesse of reiection going..in order before. 1697Dryden æneid vi. 1088 At his fore-seen Approach, already quake The Caspian Kingdoms. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 145 A burst of enthusiasm on the foreseen consequences of this happy day. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic xxiii. (1866) I. 454 To move in a foreseen, and, consequently, a determinate direction. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 113 No sublime augury cheers the student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law. |