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fore-give
fore-give
See also: foregive
English
Verb
fore-give (third-person singular simple present fore-gives, present participle fore-giving, simple past and past participle fore-gived)
- to have a foreboding; to anticipate or predict
- As commonly mens minds use to fore-give and tell aforehand when there is some mischiefe and ill toward them--Philemon Holland, Livy's Romane historie XXV. xxxv. (1609) 575
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)