forestate

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verb

To state in advance

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbforestate (third-person singular simple present forestates, present participle forestating, simple past and past participle forestated)

present singular third person forestates · participle present forestating · participle past forestated · past forestated

  1. transitiveTo state in advance

    "And I'll bet she's found him and given him that money," he continued, — forestating Sid's own conclusion.

    1912, Henry Howard Harper, The Stumbling Block
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    That was the occasion when the Cardinal Gonsalvi, knowing whom he should please, and what schemes were in progress, ventured to forestate the decision of the parliament on the Bill that now engages its attention.

    1841, Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Speeches of Henry lord Brougham

    It is far from being what I should like to write about them, but perhaps enough has been said to forestate the problem as it appears to one who has traveled with these children and learned to know them “in the open.”

    1896, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 77

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