forespeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈspiːk/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /fɔɹˈspik/
ipa: /fɚ-/
homophone: forspeak
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: forespeaks
form: forespeaking
form: forespoke
form: forespake
form: forespoken
form: forspeak
Etymology: From fore- (prefix meaning ‘earlier, occurring beforehand, prior to’) + speak.
Senses: examples: text: Rejoice sister, for the same word that forespaketh trouble, doth certify us of the glory consequent.
ref: c. 1552, Thomas M‘Crie, quoting John Knox, “Period III. From His Release from the French Galleys, Anno 1549, to His Departure out of England, Anno 1554.”, in The Life of John Knox: Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland; […], New York, N.Y.: Eastburn, Kirk, & Co. […]; Philadelphia, Pa.: W. W. Woodward, published 1813, →OCLC, page 75:
text: chriſt foreſpeaketh his owne Death mat[thew] 16, 21
ref: 1560, “A Table of the Principal Things that are Conteined in the Bible, after the Ordre of the Alphabet. The First Nomber Noteth the Chapter, and the Seconde the Verse.”, in [William Whittingham [et al.]], transl., The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: Printed by Rouland Hall, →OCLC, column 2:
text: He [Jesus] had Iohn Baptiſt his forerunner, and cryer, foreſpoken of the Meſſiah: […]
ref: 1611, John Hull, Saint Peters Prophesie of These Last Daies. […], London: […] Nathaniel Fosbrooke, […], →OCLC, page 597:
text: Why la; I knew't, this Propheticall tongue of mine never faild me; my mother was halfe a witch, never any thing that ſhe foreſpake, but came to paſſe: […]
ref: 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 166, column 1:
text: The same Henry of Ritchmond (after Henry the seavnth) I know not by what provydence or prophecy forsaw that his sonne Henry was not lyke to please god so well to have the kingdome established in his posterytye and thearfore matched his eldest Dawghter into Skotland thearby as yt wear forspeaking a happy conjunction of thease two noble realms […]
ref: 1640, James Harrington, transl., The Vjth Booke of Vergills Eneads; quoted in Caroline Bicks, “Stealing the Seal: Baptizing Women and the Mark of Kingship”, in Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2017, →ISBN, page 153:
text: Remember, so often as thou neglectest morning prayer, so often thou art all the day naked, destitute of thy spiritual guard, and exposed to all manner of evils and enemies, and dost forespeak thyself an evil day; and so often as thou omittest evening prayer thou presumest upon sleep, and rest, and safety, without God's leave, and forespeakest thyself an evil night.
ref: 1675, George Swinnock, “The Sinner’s Last Sentence”, in The Works of George Swinnock, M.A. (Nichol’s Series of Standard Divines; Puritan Period), volume V, Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet and Co.; […], published 1868, →OCLC, chapter XXXIII (A Caution against Sins of Omission in Regard of the Matter of Duties), page 384:
text: Well, Bengal, thy famish'd dead, / (Victim-millions o'er thee spread,) / Forespoke of Erin coffinless!
ref: 1847 April 24, Ebenezer Elliott, “Erin. A Dirge.”, in John Saunders, editor, The People’s Journal, volume III, number 69, London: People’s Journal Office, […], →OCLC, page 230, column 1:
glosses: To foretell, to predict.
Derived terms: forespeaker