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To think beforehand; to anticipate in the mind; to prognosticate. [Obs.] The soul of every man Prophetically doth forethink thy fall. Shak.

Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.

To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.

To wish beforehand.

wledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker.

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous. [Obs.] Jonhson.

the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.

Beforehand; first. [Obs.] Spenser.

To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.

To act beforehand; to perform previously.

To advertise beforehand; to preannounce publicly.

To announce beforehand. Coleridge.

To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.

To arrange beforehand.

To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.

A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.

Beforehand; antecedently.

To cogitate beforehand. [R.] Sherwood.

Cognizable beforehand.

To examine beforehand, as witnesses or evidence. A committee of nine precognoscing the chances. Masson.