forspan
verbEtymology
From Middle English forspannen, forspanen, from Old English forspanan (“to mislead, lead astray, seduce, entice”), from Proto-Germanic *farspananą, *fraspananą (“to allure”), equivalent to for- + span. Cognate with Middle High German verspanen (“to tempt, entice”).
- inherited from *farspananą✻
- inherited from forspanan
- inherited from forspannen
Definitions
To entice
To entice; seduce.
Foresight
Foresight; the ability to see, predict, or perceive future events.
- In a remote age and country we find Njal, the hero of the Njal's saga, credited with forspan, or the gift of beholding such shadowy apparitions of future events — a power carefully distinguished from ordinary clear-sighted wisdom.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for forspan. 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