Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations.1867, The British controversialist and literary magazine, page 403:
What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality.1998, J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79:
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Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord […]2002, Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80:
foreshape
noun
Etymology From fore- + shape.
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No plural A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
[...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body profile of least drag in width and thickness, [...]1982, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, volume 1018, number 1, page 158: