[f. FORE- pref. + GLANCE sb.] The action of glancing forward; also, a view or glance beforehand.
1825. Coleridge, Rem. (1836), II. 126. I have sometimes thought that the word ‘courtiers’ was a misprint for ‘countenances,’ arising from an anticipation, by foreglance of the compositor’s eye, of the word ‘courtier’ a few lines below.
1860. Ellicott, Life Our Lord, ii. 49. With the rapid foreglance of thought she must have seen in the clouded future, scorn, dereliction, the pointed finger of mocking and uncharitable world, columny, shame, death.
1889. Hissey, Tour in Phaeton, 130–1. How intensely interesting it would be to have a foreglance into a science text-book of a century hence!
