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forescent

verb
/ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈsɛnt/

Etymology

From fore- + scent.

  1. derived from *sent-✻ — “to feel”
  2. derived from sentiō — “to feel, sense”
  3. derived from sentir — “to feel, perceive, smell, sense”
  4. inherited from sent
  5. formed as forescent — “fore- + scent”

Definitions

  1. To detect the scent of (something) before it is present.

    • birds and wild animals forescent a storm, or an earthquake
    • […] the white goose, The saviour of the Roman citadel, Forescents afar the odour of mankind.

  2. To detect or become aware of (something) in advance.

    • 1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Boston: Ginn & Company, Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 462, the sagacity with which Iago feels and forescents his way into Roderigo
    • 1915, Frederick Goodyear, letter to F.W. Leith Ross in Letters and Remains: 1887-1917, London: McBride, Nast, 1920, p. 94, Possibly we instinctively forescented the war.

  3. A scent that indicates something in advance.

    • an appalling forescent of his own near approaching discomfiture
    • An allusion to the garlic breath of the groundlings provides a forescent of the evil smells that pervade the Genoan court.

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