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† ˌfore-iˈmagine, v. Obs.
[f. fore- prefix + imagine v.]
trans. To imagine beforehand.
1602[see the ppl. a.]. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxiii. (1632) 55, I am fully perswaded you fore-imagine what I will charge you with. 1624Bp. Hall Heaven vpon Earth §3 To..fore-imagine the worst in all casuall matters.
Hence fore-imagined ppl. a. So fore-imagination, something imagined beforehand.
1602Carew Eng. Tongue (1723) 11 A fore-imagined possibilitie. 1625Donne Serm. lxvi. 667 All that is well done..is..done according to Preconceptions, Fore-imaginations. |