v. [f. FORE- pref. + ANNOUNCE.] trans. To announce beforehand.
1846. Trench, Mirac. (1889), 453. [God] might have used Caiaphas to fore-announce other truths of his Kingdom.
1860. Pusey, The Minor Prophets, 5. After finally foreannouncing the miseries at the destruction of Samaria, the Prophet closes his prophecy and his whole book, with a description of Israel’s future repentance and acceptance, and of his flourishing with manifold grace.
Hence Fore-announced ppl. a.; Fore-announcing vbl. sb. Also Fore-announcement, a notification or declaration beforehand.
1864. Pusey, Lect. Daniel, vi. 355. God’s property of mercy, their sins calling down His foreannounced justice. Ibid., v. 236. Prophecy, which these men limit to the foreannouncing of our Lord’s coming, is to be ‘a striving of human nature towards Christianity.’ Ibid. (1864), Daniel, 626. It is not, like prophecies of Holy Scripture, a foreannouncement of events, whose causes lay hid in the mind of God.
