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forethink|fɔəˈθɪŋk|
Also for-.
[OE. foreþęnc(e)an, f. fore- prefix + þęnc(e)an to think.]
†1. trans. To consider or think out beforehand, contrive, plan. Obs.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xv. §5. 95 Se lareow sceal..foreðencean..ðæt he nane ðinga ðæt ryht to suiðe..ne bodiᵹe. a1300Cursor M. 845 (Cott.) Our lauerd had ranscond [man] On suilk a wis, als he for-thoght. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 141 Ther is no time no thing wel doon..but it be forthouht bi my wit. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 759 He long time in king Edwardes life, forethought to be king. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1394/1 If he..did now forethink the treason. 1715Rowe Lady Jane Gray 111, My brain fore⁓thought And fashion'd every action of my life.
absol.1634Ford P. Warbeck iv. iv, You're men know how to do, not to forethink.
2. To think of or contemplate beforehand; to anticipate in the mind, to presage (evil). Now rare.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 106 Humility & gentlenes will rather of a friend hope the best, then fore⁓thinke the worst. 1627P. Fletcher Locusts iv. xxxvi, Oh how my dauncing heart leapes in my breast But to fore-thinke that noble tragedie. 1724R. Welton 28 Disc. 20 It [is] very unaccountable for a man so little to fore⁓think what will shortly befall him. 1890Illustr. Lond. News 4 Oct. 426/2 Each forethinks, as the full cups circle, how well he may take his next meal in Paradise.
†3. intr. To think beforehand of. Obs.
1587Greene Euphues his Censure Wks. (Grosart) VI. 248 Age and time..men may forethink of, but not preuent. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 62 Thou dost not forethink of the difficulty. 1701J. Norris Ideal World i. ii. 27 He could not make it without forethinking of it.
Hence foreˈthinking vbl. n., forethought; also, † a contrivance, plot. foreˈthinking ppl. a. Also foreˈthinker, one who forethinks.
1632[I. L.] Womens Rights 352 Felonies..forethinkings, and all that is against the Kings peace. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxi. 360 Concerning which, conscientious and fore⁓thinking Men had very Melancholy Thoughts. 1846Grote Greece i. iii. I. 102 Prometheus and Epimetheus the fore⁓thinker and the after-thinker. 1874M. Collins Frances I. 182 Hope is the fire that the Forethinker stole. |