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† fore-ˈread, v. Obs.
[f. fore- prefix + read.]
trans. a. To read beforehand. b. To betoken or signify beforehand. c. To predestine.
a.1620Bp. Saunderson Twelve Sermons (1637) 303 Not onely to foreknow the extraordinary plagues..but also to fore-read in them Gods fierce wrath and heavie displeasure.
b.1591Spenser Muiopotmos 29 His young..yeares..to him forered, That he..would..proue such an one. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 219 The first part of whose name, Godiua, doth forereed Th' first syllable of hers.
c.a1636Fitzgeoffrey Eleg. iii. E vij b, Had Fate fore⁓read me in a Croude to dye.
Hence fore-ˈreading vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1557N. Grimalde in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 116 Good luck, certayn forereadyng moothers haue. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 347 Your fore-reading of Suetonius. |