v. [f. FORE- pref. + GUESS.] trans. To guess beforehand; to forecast, anticipate, conjecture. Const. with simple obj. or with obj. clause. Also absol.
Hence Foreguessing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1388. Wyclif, Wisd. xvii. 10, marg. note. Bi forgessing grete yuels to comynge on it silf.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xii. 54. Neyther as ydle folkes hange ye all together of the weather, obseruyng and markyng all lykelyhoodes and fore geassynges of tempestes, weaxing pale for woe as often as the planetes shall threaten penurie or derth of Corne.
1598. Florio, Presago, a … foreguessing man.
1640. Bp. Hall, Chr. Moder., 28/1. Melancthon could foreguess, that the time should come wherein men should be tainted with this error, that either religion is a matter of nothing, or that the differences in religions are merely verbal.
1895. W. H. Turton Truth of Chr., 88. But He may also have foreknown, what we can only foreguess, that the existence of this evil is but temporary, and that it will lead to a more than compensating permanent good, which could not be otherwise obtained.
