vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.]
The action of the vb. FORESPEAK; † a preliminary speech, preface; † a prediction.
1480. Caxton, Descr. Brit., 31. This place is but a forspekyng & not a full tretis ther-of.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John xii. 33. Sum in that assembly of people, which did coniecte (bicause of the forespeakyng of death) that he had spoken of the torment of the crosse.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 107/2. The forespeaking of Austin was heere verified upon the Britains.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. (1634), 237. By the spiritual [we are taught] the figures and mysticall fore-speakings of Christ.
1645. R. Norwood, in Prynne, Disc. Prodigious New Blazing-Stars, App. 26. Horrible forespeakings, threatnings … and censures have been publikely denounced against me.
1694. Pepys, in Academy, XXXVIII. 9 Aug. (1890), 110/3. Your Fount for Musick, which I am pleas’d with yor fore-speakeing soe well of.
