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foresay

verb
/fɔː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English foresayen, foreseyen, foreseggen (found only in past participle foresaid), from Old English foreseċġan (“to foresay, foretell, predict, announce, mention beforehand”), equivalent to fore- + say. Cognate with Dutch voorzeggen (“to foretell, presage”), Old Danish foresige, Swedish föresäga, förutsäga (“to predict”).

  1. inherited from foreseċġan — “to foresay, foretell, predict, announce, mention beforehand”
  2. inherited from foresayen

Definitions

  1. To say beforehand

    To say beforehand; predict; foretell.

  2. To decree

    To decree; ordain; appoint.

    • Let ordinance / Come as the gods foresay it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foresay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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