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To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand. Who would the miseries of man foreknow Dryden.

That may be foreknown. Dr. H. More.

One who foreknows.

With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.

dge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.

Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23.

To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft.

n; discernment; decision. [Obs.] And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax.

doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3.

One who foresees or foreknows.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge. Milton.

To foreknow. [Obs.] [Written also forwete.] Chaucer.

point or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preëlect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29.

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.

Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment. If there be aught of presage in the mind. Milton.

Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills. [R.] Dryden.

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer.

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. Isa. xlvii. 13.