foregrasp

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A prior cognizance or understanding

   A 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.
2. 2

   To 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.

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