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foresight|ˈfɔəsaɪt|
[f. fore- prefix + sight. Cf. OHG. forasiht, Ger. vorsicht.]
1. The action or faculty of foreseeing what must happen; prevision.
14..Lydg. Secrees 173 Haue ther with Consyderacyon Be a forsyght and cleer inspeccyon. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 17 b, Foresight is a gatheryng by conjectures what shall happen. 1656Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. (1851) 19 Want of foresight makes thee more merry. 1791Burke Th. on Fr. Affairs Wks. VII. 83 The effects rather of blind terrour than of enlightened foresight. 1815Jane Austen Emma iii. iii, On fire with speculation and foresight. 1856Smyth Roman Family Coins 245 Nor had he foresight enough to see the true interests of his country.
2. a. The action of looking forward (lit. and fig.); also, a look forward (at some distant object).
1591Spenser Muiopot. 389 The foolish flie without fore⁓sight. 1656Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. (1851) 22 My very eye is weary with the foresight of so great a distance. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 368 Let Eve..Here sleep below, while thou to foresight wak'st. 1778Pennant Tour Wales (1883) I. 20 From the Summit of Garreg..the traveller may have an august foresight of the lofty tract of Snowdon. 1885G. J. Whyte-Melville In Lena Delta iv. 50 Aftersight informed us of much that our foresight had overlooked.
b. Perception gained by looking forward; prospect; a sight or view into the future.
1422E.E. Wills (1882) 49 Hauyng gode in forsyght, I haue maad and ordened this my..last wylle. c1422Hoccleve Learn to Die 527 Forsighte at al ne haan tho wrecches noon Of the harm which ther-of moot folwe neede. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xi. (1596) 169 The thoughts of mortal men are timorous, and their foresights vncertaine. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. v. (1654) 30 Joseph, out of the fore-sight of a following dearth, bought up the seven yeares graine for Pharaoh. a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 176 Upon a fore-sight that the fire may come thither. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. 49 Our foresight of those consequences, is a warning given us. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iii. 62 We are guarded against the naked effect of the perpetual foresight of death.
3. a. Care or provision for the future.
1375Barbour Bruce xx. 314 With sa gude forsicht and sa viss, Or his furth-passyng ordanit he, That [etc.]. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, If by prudent forsyght, Thou haddest had grace for to record aryht. 1513Douglas æneis viii. ix. 74 Gyf it be sa ȝour godhed..Be prescience provyd hes, and forsichtis. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 111 Counsell grounded vpon no wise foresight or approued experience, was more dangerous to him. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. viii. 257 He had had the foresight to order [it]. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike viii. 85 Those least disposed to foresight could not help asking..what was to be done next time. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 155 In hot climates, nature being bountiful, man is not obliged to use foresight.
†b. (God's, divine) foresight: = providence. Also, an instance or effect of Divine Providence.
a1300Cursor M. 284 (Cott.) Þis lauerd þat is so mikil of miȝt puruaid al in his for-sight. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 460 God..Preserwyt thaim in hys forsycht. 1559Mirr. Mag., Dk. Clarence lvi, Wo wurth the wretch yt strives with gods forsighte. 1635–56Cowley Davideis ii. 827 Shapd in the glass of the divine Foresight. 1664Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 167, I find now..that my want of language hath been but a foresight of the King my Master, and a fit complement upon His part.
4. Surveying. (See quot.). ? U.S. only.
1855Davies & Peck Math. Dict. (1857), Foresight, any reading of the leveling-rod, after the first, taken at a given station. The first reading is called a back-sight.
5. The foremost of the two sights on a gun; the muzzle-sight.
1806M. Lewis in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) IV. 169 Labuish,..having by some accedent lost the fore sight of his gun shot a great number of times but killed only the number mentioned. 1847[see sight n.1 14 b]. 1859Musketry Instruct. 25 Raise the folding sight and the eye..until the fore-sight is in a line with the bull's-eye. 1880Times 18 Oct. 4/3 In using the rifle a native rarely avails himself of the foresight. |