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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.

tograph made, usually with a hand camera, without formal posing of, and often without the foreknowledge of, the subject.