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▪ I. forespeak, v.|fɔəˈspiːk|
Also for-.
[f. fore- prefix + speak v.]
1. trans. To speak beforehand; to speak of beforehand, esp. to fortell, predict. Now rare. † Occasionally of a thing: To betoken.
1375Barbour Bruce i. 630 Let hym with the lettir passe, Till entyr It, as for-spokin was. 1548Gest Pr. Masse 110 Hys antecedent..was not to sacryfyce his body wherof he forspoke never word. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 91 Every man would now be wise and fore-speak fair weather..how truly a few moneths will discover. 1667Disc. Religion of England 27 Though a peoples discomposure doth not forespeak Warrs and Tumults, yet it may denounce Woe and Misery. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 165, I must flee..and hie me where the god Forespoke me refuge. 1877J. B. Taylor in Internat. Rev. IV. 417 He [Tennyson] has not..forespoken the deeper problems which shall engage the generation to come.
†b. To speak to (a person) beforehand. Obs.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Ban. Virgin 143 My Physitian had, in fore-speaking the women..made every of them beleeve, that [etc.]. 1692Wagstaffe Vind. Carol. Pref., Our Author has forespoken his Reader with a long Preface.
†2. intr. To speak beforehand; chiefly, to utter predictions, prophesy.
a1300Cursor M. 2947 (Cott.) Als sco for spak, right sua þai wroght. 1557N.T. (Genev.) Epist. *iv, First Isaie forespake vnto, how that he sholde be borne of a Virgine. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 43/1 The Irish prophet..forespeaking of this battell said [etc.]. 1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. i. 110 These are the days fore-spoken of. 1656Cromwell Sp. 17 Sept. in Burton's Diary (1828) Introd. I. 155 The head of the anti-Christian interest, that is..so fore⁓spoken of.
†3. trans. To speak forth or out; to proclaim.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 31 Forspeake not your fortune, nor hide not your neede. a1547Surrey Ps. lxxiii. 66 My unworthy lips..Shall thus forespeak thy secret works, in sight of Adams race.
4. To speak for or bespeak in advance.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 36 That they might the better forespeak impunity for so strange boldness. 1882Ogilv., Forespeak..to buy a thing before it is fit or in the market; to bespeak; as, that calf is forespoken. (Scotch).
Hence foreˈspeaking ppl. a.
1650W. Sclater Malachy Ep. Ded. ii. Forespeaking and..conjecturing natures.
▪ II. forespeak
see forspeak, to bewitch, etc. |