Fore-give

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    to have a foreboding; to anticipate or predict obsolete

    "As commonly mens minds use to fore-give and tell aforehand when there is some mischiefe and ill toward them--Philemon Holland, Livy's Romane historie XXV. xxxv. (1609) 575"

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"As commonly mens minds use to fore-give and tell aforehand when there is some mischiefe and ill toward them--Philemon Holland, Livy's Romane historie XXV. xxxv. (1609) 575"

Etymology

From fore- + give.

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