Foreconsider

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To consider beforehand; think about in advance. transitive

    "Could we, then, foreconsider the everlasting torments which attend the momentary pleasures of sin, we would say to the best and most plausible of them, as sir Thomas is reported a to have said to his wife, "Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple:" […]"

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"Could we, then, foreconsider the everlasting torments which attend the momentary pleasures of sin, we would say to the best and most plausible of them, as sir Thomas is reported a to have said to his wife, "Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple:" […]"

Etymology

From fore- + consider.

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