v. Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + IMAGINE v.] trans. To imagine beforehand.
1602. [see the ppl. a.]
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xxiii. (1632), 55. I am fully perswaded you fore-imagine what I will charge you with.
1624. Bp. Hall, Heaven vpon Earth, § 3. To fore-imagine the worst in all casuall matters.
Hence Fore-imagined ppl. a. So Fore-imagination, something imagined beforehand.
1602. Carew, Eng. Tongue (1723), 11. How farre wee are within compasse of a fore imagined possibilitie.
1625. Donne, Serm., lxvi. 667. All that is well done or wisely undertaken, is undertaken and done according to Preconceptions, Fore-imaginations.
