foregrasp

1. uncountableA prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.

   Each of these terms is the product of the irony which comes from having obtained a foregrasp of mundaneity while attempting to articulate mundaneity within the idiom which mundaneity supports.

   2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse

present singular third person foregrasps · participle present foregrasping · participle past foregrasped · past foregrasped

1. transitiveTo grasp beforehand.

   Thy great deliverance is a greater thing Than purest imagination can foregrasp; A thing beyond all conscious hungering, Beyond all hope that makes the poet sing.

   2007, George MacDonald, Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul