v. [f. FORE- pref. + HEAR v.] trans. and intr. To hear beforehand.
1599. Soliman & Perseda, G ij.
| The Turkes whom they account for barbarous, | |
| Hauing forehard of Basiliscoes worth, | |
| A number vnder prop me with their shoulders, | |
| And in procession bare me to the Church. |
1623. Webster, D’chess Malfy, III. iv.
| How that the Pope, forehearing of her looseness | |
| Hath seiz’d into the protection of the church | |
| The dukedom which she held as dowager. |
1800–24. Campbell, Death-boat of Heligoland, 3.
| There are brains, though they moulder, that dream in the tomb, | |
| And that maddening forehear the last trumpet of doom. |
1813. Byron, Giaour, 1076, note. Evinced his own belief in his troublesome faculty of forehearing.
