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Fore*deem", v. i. [Cf. Foredoom.] To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.]

Which could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come.

Genevan Test.

Fore`de*sign" (? or ?), v. t. To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

Fore`de*ter"mine (?), v. t. To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

Fore`dis*pose" (?), v. t. To bestow beforehand. [R.]

King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath.

Fuller.

Fore*doom" (?), v. t. [Cf. Foredeem.] To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

Dryden.

Fore"doom` (?), n. Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

Fore"fa`ther (?; 277), n. One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves.

Burke.

Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

Fore*feel" (?), v. t. To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. [Obs.]

As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds.

Chapman.

Fore`fence" (?), n. Defense in front. [Obs.]

Fore*fend" (?), v. t. [OE. forfenden; pref. for- + fenden to fend. See Fend, v. t.] To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.

God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history.

Landor.

It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty.

I. Taylor.

Fore"fin`ger (?), n. The finger next to the thumb; the index.

Fore*flow" (?), v. t. To flow before. [Obs.]

Fore"foot` (?), n. 1. One of the anterior feet of a quadruped or multiped; -- usually written fore foot.