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▪ I. † ˈforeshow, n. Obs.
[f. fore- prefix + show n.]
A manifestation beforehand; a previous indication or token; a prefiguration.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark iii. 35 Here was made a foreshewe of the churche, that should be gathered together. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witcher. xi. vi. 157 Pretending that everie bird and beast, &c., should be sent from the gods as foreshewes of somewhat. 1600Fairfax Tasso xiii. liv. 245 With vermile drops at eau'n his tresses bleed, Foreshowes of future heat. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxv. (1632) 69 The foreshew of their inclination whilest they are young is so uncertaine.
▪ II. foreshow, v.|fɔəˈʃəʊ|
[OE. forescéawian, f. fore- prefix + scéawian to show.]
†1. trans. To look out for; to provide; to contemplate in the future. Only OE. and early ME.
c1000ælfric Judg. vi. 8 He him foresceawode sumne heretoᵹan. a1175Cott. Hom. 227 Se time com þe god forescewede. c1200Vices & Virtues (1888) 17 Ðare hierte ðe ne wile forsceawin h(w)ider he scal ðanne he henen farð.
2. To show or make known beforehand; chiefly, to foretell, prognosticate.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 82 God there fore⁓sheweth some peculiar thing concerning his electes. 1642–46in Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 517 No scholar shall..unless foreshowed and allowed by the President..be absent from his studies..above an hour. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 110 He foreshews that many should come in his name. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 462 Astrologers, that future fates foreshew. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. 316 He gave Enoch a commission to foreshow the deluge. 1879Butcher & Lang Odyss. 196 If thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship.
b. Of things: To indicate beforehand, give promise or warning of; to foreshadow, prefigure.
1601Chester Love's Mart. cix. (1878) 71 The Sunne did frowne, Fore-shewing to his men a blacke-fac't day. 1776G. Horne Psalms xlvii. 3 That great conquest, foreshewed by the victories of Joshua. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art I. 132 The falling of the mercury foreshews thunder. 1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 245 Aphthæ frequently..foreshow imminent death. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 40 God had..enjoined sacrifice, to foreshow and plead to Himself the one meritorious Sacrifice of Christ.
†3. To show forth, betoken, display. Obs.
1590[Tarlton] News Purgat. (1844) 91 Glances that fore⁓shewed good will. 1607H. Arthington Princ. Points i. v, To view God's Creatures..How do they all his loue fore⁓shew. 1608Shakes. Per. iv. i. 86 Your lookes fore-shew You haue a gentle heart.
Hence foreˈshown ppl. a. Also foreˈshower, one who or that which foreshows.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions Pref. 13 Deuilles, fore⁓shewers of thinges. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 388 The signs..which should be the foreshewers of this terrible day. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters iv. 258 [They] were fore-shewers of a happy voyage. 1755Johnson, Foreteller, predicter, foreshower. 1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile Poems 1850 I. 68 The voices of foreshown Humanity. 1852Peacock Wks. (1875) III. 380 To all mankind death is the foreshown doom. |