foreshape

present singular third person foreshapes · participle present foreshaping · participle past foreshaped · past foreshaped

1. transitiveTo shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.

   Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord […]

   2002, Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80

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   Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.

   1867, The British controversialist and literary magazine, page 403

   What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.

   1998, J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79

1. no pluralA forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.

   [...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, [...]

   1982, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, volume 1018, number 1, page 158