foreteachv.
rare.
transitive. To teach beforehand.
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society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach before
foreteach1591
pre-instruct1617
1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. B4v Eua..following nothing but what hir husbande foreshewed and foretaught hir.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 126 Those few duties which nature herself hath foretaught us.
1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids x. 843 The father's soul foretaught of ill, afar their wail he knew.
1909 tr. Sermons of St. Bernard on Advent & Christmas 152 They are foretaught by the Holy Spirit.
Derivatives
foretaught adj. previously taught.
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society > education > teaching > [adjective] > conveyed by teaching
foretaught1534
self-taught1586
doctrined1627
taught1909
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1346/2 Theyr foretaught and fro tyme to tyme kept and continued faith.
1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Blacke Smyth xxxvi Whose foretaught wyt of treason knoweth the payne.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. F8v The sacred thinges, and holy heastes foretaught.
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