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Webster 1913 Edition
Foreguess
Fore-guess′
,Verb.
T.
To conjecture.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Foreguess
FOREGUESS'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
foreguess
foreguess
English
Verb
foreguess (third-person singular simple present foreguesses, present participle foreguessing, simple past and past participle foreguessed)
- (transitive) To guess beforehand.
- 1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge:
- The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.
- 1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge:
- (transitive) To forecast.
- (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
- (transitive) To conjecture; assume.
- 1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons:
- " [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."
- 1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons:
Derived terms
Noun
foreguess (plural foreguesses)
- A conjecture; an assumption.
- 1887, The Scottish review:
- […] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.
- 1887, The Scottish review: