foreread
Verb
To signify beforehand; predict.
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She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
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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.
To read beforehand or ahead of time.
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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.
To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
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He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.
Noun
A foreword; preface.
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