† fore-imaginev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To imagine beforehand.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > give mental shape to [verb (transitive)] > beforehand
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxiii. 55 I am fully perswaded you fore-imagine what I will charge you with.
1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth iii. 16 To fore-imagine the worst in al casual matters.
Derivatives
fore-imagined adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized > beforehand
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1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 43 A fore imagined possibilitie.
fore-imagination n. something imagined beforehand.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > imagined beforehand
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a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 60 All that is well done..is..done according to pre-conceptions, fore-imaginations.
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