forespeak

[ fawr-speek, fohr- ]

verb (used with object)

, fore·spoke or (Archaic) fore·spake; fore·spo·ken or (Archaic) fore·spoke; fore·speak·ing.

1. to predict; foretell.
2. to ask for or claim in advance.

forespeak

/ fɔːˈspiːk /

verb

1. to predict; foresee
2. to arrange or speak of in advance

Word History and Origins

Origin of forespeak¹

First recorded in 1250–1300, forespeak is from the Middle English word forespeken. See fore-, speak

Example Sentences

And they made “pictures” of wax into which the little black man stuck thorns, one in the crown, another in the breast, and a third in the side, which then Margaret would fling down saying, “This is Cornish’s figure with a murrain to it,” and Elizabeth Cornish would languish and die; or “This is Bess Hill’s;” or any other person’s whom it was desired to “forespeak” and destroy; who of course were forespoken and destroyed from that hour.

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She could forespeak them so that they should give poison instead of milk, and the cream she had once overlooked was never fit for the “yirning.”

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She stood at the pier-head and as they passed poured a cup of ale into the sea, to forespeak good luck for the fleet.

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Why do you forespeak misfortune, Liot?

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No doubt Isolina had heard her captors forespeak their plans.

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