forespeak
Americanverb (used with object)
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to predict; foretell.
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to ask for or claim in advance.
verb
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to predict; foresee
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to arrange or speak of in advance
Etymology
Origin of forespeak
First recorded in 1250–1300, forespeak is from the Middle English word forespeken. See fore-, speak
Example Sentences
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She could forespeak them so that they should give poison instead of milk, and the cream she had once overlooked was never fit for the “yirning.”
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She stood at the pier-head and as they passed poured a cup of ale into the sea, to forespeak good luck for the fleet.
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Why do you forespeak misfortune, Liot?
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He thought himself more specially a seer, and in his prayer after the failure of his friends, the murderers of Riccio, he congratulates himself on being favoured above the common sort of his brethren, and privileged to “forespeak” things, in an unique degree.
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Those, meanwhile, who knew anything that boded ill, concealed it, lest they might seem to forespeak ill-luck.
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