foreguess

present singular third person foreguesses · participle present foreguessing · participle past foreguessed · past foreguessed

1. transitiveTo guess beforehand.

   The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.

   1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge

2. transitiveTo forecast.
3. transitiveTo anticipate; expect.
4. transitiveTo conjecture; assume.

   " [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."

   1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons

plural foreguesses

1. A conjecture; an assumption.

   […] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.

   1887, The Scottish review