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forereckon

verb

Etymology

From fore- + reckon.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “to make straight or right”
  2. derived from *rekan✻ — “swift, ready, prompt”
  3. inherited from *rekanōn✻ — “to count, explain”
  4. inherited from recenian — “to pay; arrange, dispose, reckon”
  5. inherited from rekenen
  6. prefixed as forereckon — “fore + reckon”

Definitions

  1. To reckon beforehand or in advance

    To reckon beforehand or in advance; prefigure

    • The past is leaving us, the untried and unknown future is before us, and we can none of us forecast or forereckon what Seventynine, another twelve months, will bring to us and ours. What 1878 has been 1879 may not be, or vice versa ; …
    • Nay, who that hath lent unto Time may forereckon the fruit of his loan ? As the need of their day was they did, and their morrow hath cared for its own. What rose of our spring shall we gather this morn for the grave of a sire ?
    • In his bower, Coverdale onanistically counts “the innumerable clusters of my vine,” and forereckons “the abundance of my vintage.”

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA