Part 279

It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so- called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms.

Fitzed. Hall.

For"eign*ness, n. The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right.

Locke.

A foreignness of complexion.

G. Eliot.

For"ein (?), a. Foreign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fore*judge" (?), v. t. [Fore + judge.] To judge beforehand, or before hearing the facts and proof; to prejudge.

Fore*judge", v. t. [For forjudge, fr. F. forjuger; OF. fors outside, except + F. juger to judge.] (O. Eng. Law) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill.

Fore*judg"er (?), n. (Eng. Law) A judgment by which one is deprived or put out of a right or thing in question.

Fore*judg"ment (?), n. Prejudgment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fore*know" (?), v. t. [imp. Foreknew (?); p. p. Foreknown (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Foreknowing.] To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

Who would the miseries of man foreknow?

Dryden.

Fore*know"a*ble (?), a. That may be foreknown. Dr. H. More.

Fore*know"er (?), n. One who foreknows.

Fore*know"ing*ly, adv. With foreknowledge.

He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life.

Jer. Taylor.

Fore*knowl"edge (?), n. Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault.

Milton.

For"el (?), n. [OE. forelcase, sheath, OF. forel, fourel, F. fourreau, LL. forellus, fr. OF. forre, fuerre, sheath, case, of German origin; cf. OHG. fuotar, akin to Goth. fdr; prob. not the same word as E. fodder food. Cf. Fur, Fodder food.] A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

For"el, v. t. To bind with a forel. [R.] Fuller.

Fore"land` (?), n. 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow.

3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. Knight.