# foretoldest
## English
### Verb

foretoldest
* (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of foretell
** a. 1677?, Bruno Ryves, Mercurius Rusticus: or, The Country’s Complaint of the Barbarous Outrages Begun in the Year 1642, by the Sectaries of This Late Flourishing Kingdom. […], 5th edition, London: […] W. Mears, […], published 1732, page 214:But Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not ſee, as thou foretoldeſt by thy Prophet Eſay […]
** a. 1679?, Matthew Pool, Annotations upon the Holy Bible; Wherein the Sacred Text Is Inserted, and Various Readings Annexed, Together with the Parallel Scriptures; the More Difficult Terms in Each Verse Are Explained, Seeming Contradictions Reconciled, Questions and Doubts Resolved, and the Whole Text Opened, volume II, London: James Nisbet and Co., […], published 1853, page 753:The opening of the mouth; thou shalt with greater authority be heard speaking, when the sorrows thou foretoldest, and the joys thou promisedst, both come to pass; […]
** 1686, Reflections upon the Devotions of the Roman Church. With the Prayers, Hymns and Lessons Themselves, Taken out of Their Authentick Books. Also Two Digressions Concerning the Reliques and Miracles in Mr. Cressy’s Late Church-History., 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston, […], page 403:S Gabriel, who foretoldeſt the Birth and Miniſtery of John the Baptiſt.
** 1792, Athenian Letters: or, The Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens During the Peloponnesian War. […], volume I, London: For J. Walker, page 9:I remember, when plenipotentiaries were ſent to conclude that inglorious peace with Athens, after the victories of Cimon, thou foretoldeſt that if we let the Greeks alone, they would deſtroy themſelves.
** 1841, Family Worship. A Series of Prayers, with Doctrinal and Practical Remarks on Passages of Sacred Scripture, for Every Morning and Evening Throughout the Year; Adapted to the Services of Domestic Worship, by One Hundred and Eighty Clergymen of the Church of Scotland., Blackie & Son, […], Glasgow; […], Edinburgh; and […], London, page 654:At sundry times, and in divers manners, thou foretoldest unto the fathers, by the prophets, that thou wouldst send forth into this world a great Deliverer, one mighty to save.
** 1841, [Charles François] Lhomond, translated by James Appleton, Instructions on the Doctrines, Duties, and Resources, of the Catholic Religion, Philadelphia, Pa.: Michael Kelly, […], page 81:Thou thyself, O Lord! in foretelling thy resurrection, foretoldest also the obstinacy of this incredulous race, their ruin and their dispersion.
** 1877, Jacob Merlo Horstius (unknown translator), The Paradise of the Christian Soul, Delightful for Its Choicest Pleasures of Piety of Every Kind, London: Burns & Oates, […], page 492:Remember the sadness and bitterness which, by thy own testimony, thou hadst in thy soul, when at the last Supper thou gavest to thy disciples thy own Body and Blood, washedst their feet, and, in sweetly consoling them, foretoldest thy impending Passion.
** 1887, Whitley Stokes, editor and transl., The Tripartite Life of Patrick, with Other Documents Relating to That Saint, part II, London: […] Eyre and Spottiswoode, page 485:Thou shalt not go to Armagh, for thou foretoldest to Trechem’s sons that with them thy resurrection would be.
** 1899, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, page 1008:Why didst thou bid me not to fear, when thou / In Ziph foretoldest that thy Father’s sword / Should never strike me, but upon my brow / Should shine the golden circlet of the Lord?
** 1929, Alexis Kivi, translated by Alex Matson, Seven Brothers, London: Faber & Faber Limited, […], page 75:Thy witch’s tricks, poor woman, can do no more than they did two years ago when thou foretoldest the end of the world and made many a wife beg her husband’s pardon for past scoldings without the slightest need.
** 1948, Thomas S[amuel] Kepler, compiler, The Fellowship of the Saints: An Anthology of Christian Devotional Literature, New York, N.Y., Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, page 251:And when Thou foretoldest to him his denial, he did not believe Thee.
** 1959, Pierre Corneille, translated by Lacy Lockert, Moot Plays of Corneille, Nashville, Tenn.: The Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 369:How his own savagery hath punished him / At last and gracious heaven hath just confirmed / What in our ill plight thou foretoldest him.
** 2008, Demetri (Matta) Khoury, A Cloud of Witnesses: Saints and Martyrs from the Holy Land, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 63 and 524:As thou wast vouchsafed the shining rays of prophecy, thou also wast bound to Jeremias as his friend, and foretoldest of the Word’s self-abasement for our refashioning, O all-lauded Prophet Baruch. […] O divine Ezekiel, as God’s true Prophet, thou foretoldest unto all the Incarnation of the Lord, the Lamb of God, the Artificer, the Son of God, the Eternal made manifest.