Meanings
present singular third person forereads · participle present forereading · alternative fore-read
- transitiveTo signify beforehand; predict.
She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
1904, Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 341 more example
He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.
1907, Harper's magazine, volume 114 - transitiveTo read beforehand or ahead of time.
I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.
1989, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel - transitiveTo perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.
1922, James Branch Cabell, Gallantry
Origin
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