v. [f. FORE- pref. + ACT v.] trans. and intr. To act beforehand (see senses of ACT v.).
1757. Dyer, Fleece, I. 261.
| Sagacious care foreacts: when strong disease | |
| Breaks in, and stains the purple streams of health, | |
| Hard is the strife of art. |
1840. R. I. Wilberforce, 5 Empires, 33. Here was already afforded a miniature of the achievements of later times,—the great deeds of the Son of God foreacted in dumb show in the ordinances of God’s worship and in the history of His people.
Hence Fore-acted ppl. a.; Fore-acting vbl. sb.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Job Triumph., Proem, 865.
| To finde some hole in my fore-acted Life | |
| (Scourging mine Errors with thy Terrors rife). |
1652. Caryl, Exp. Job xi.–xiv. 507. These dispensations being (præludia gloriæ) the foreactings of a glorified estate.
1682. 2nd Plea for Nonconf., 26. Their fore-acted Conspiracies.
