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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[AS.

foresceáwian

to foresee, provide;

fore + sceáwian

to see. See

Verb.

]

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

Your looks

foreshow

You have a gentle heart.

Shakespeare

Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose,
Whose purple blush the day

foreshows

Denham.

, v.t.

To show beforehand; to prognosticate.

Next, like aurora, Spenser rose, whose purple blush the day foreshows.

To predict; to foretell

To represent beforehand, or before it comes.