Webster's Dictionary 1913

2890

Forebodement

Fore‐bode″ment (?), n. The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.

2891

Foreboder

Fore‐bod″er (?), n. One who forebodes.

2892

Foreboding

Fore‐bod″ing, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

2893

Forebodingly

Fore‐bod″ing‐ly, adv. In a foreboding manner.

2894

Forebrace

Fore″brace′ (?), n.(Naut.) A rope applied to the fore yardarm, to change the position of the foresail.

2895

Forebrain

Fore″brain′ (?), n.(Anat.) The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencepha...

2896

Foreby

Fore‐by″ (?), prep. [Fore + by.] Near; hard by; along; past. See Forby. Spenser.

2897

Forecast

Fore‐cast″ (?), v. t. 1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24.2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so ...

2898

Forecast (2)

Fore‐cast″, v. i. To contrive or plan beforehand.If it happen as I did forecast. Milton.

2899

Forecast (3)

Fore″cast (?), n. Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination.He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. Addiso...

2900

Forecaster

Fore‐cast″er (?), n. One who forecast. Johnson.

2901

Forecastle

Fore″cas′tle (?; sailors say �), n.(Naut.) (a) A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. (b) That part of the upper deck of a vesse...

2902

Forechosen

Fore′cho″sen (?), a. Chosen beforehand.

2903

Forecited

Fore″cit′ed (?), a. Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.

2904

Foreclose

Fore‐close″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Foreclosed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Foreclosing (?).] [F. forclos, p. p. of forclore to exclude; OF. fors, F. hors, except, outside (fr. L. foris ...

2905

Foreclosure

Fore‐clo″sure (?; 135), n. The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

2906

Foreconceive

Fore′con‐ceive″ (?), v. t. To preconceive; to imagine beforehand. Bacon.

2907

Foredate

Fore‐date″ (?), v. t. To date before the true time; to antedate.

2908

Foredeck

Fore″deck′ (?), n.(Naut.) The fore part of a deck, or of a ship.

2909

Foredeem

Fore‐deem″ (?), v. t. To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode. Udall.Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming youAn idle meteor. J. Webster.

2910

Foredeem (2)

Fore‐deem″, v. i. [Cf. Foredoom.] To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.Which could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. Genevan Test.

2911

Foredesign

Fore′de‐sign″ (? or?), v. t. To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

2912

Foredetermine

Fore′de‐ter″mine (?), v. t. To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

2913

Foredispose

Fore′dis‐pose″ (?), v. t. To bestow beforehand.King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.

2914

Foredoom

Fore‐doom″ (?), v. t. [Cf. Foredeem.] To doom beforehand; to predestinate.Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

2915

Foredoom (2)

Fore″doom′ (?), n. Doom or sentence decreed in advance. “A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult.” Southey.

2916

Forefather

Fore″fa′ther (?; 277), n. One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.Respecting your forefathers, you would hav...