foreread
nounEtymology From fore- + read.
1
A foreword; preface.
foreread
verbEtymology From fore- + read.
1
To signify beforehand; predict.
- She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."1904, Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34:
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe, while England would remain supine, simply because Neweastle was a fool and Ormskirk would be dead.1907, Harper's magazine, volume 114:
2
To read beforehand or ahead of time.
- I can readily imagine what Pushkin might have said to his trembling paraphrasts; but I also know how pleased and excited I would have been in 1935 had I been able to foreread this 1965 version.1989, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel:
3
To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
- He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.1922, James Branch Cabell, Gallantry: