foreread

English edit

Alternative forms edit

fore-read

Etymology edit

From fore- +‎ read.

Verb edit

foreread (third-person singular simple present forereads, present participle forereading, simple past and past participle foreread)

(transitive) To signify beforehand; predict.
- 1904, Vassar College, The Vassar miscellany: Volume 34:
  She feels that she could "foreread the future and its mystery" if she could divine the meaning of the "burdened sea."
- 1907, Harper's magazine, volume 114:
  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.
(transitive) To read beforehand or ahead of time.
- 1989, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Despair: a novel:
  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.
(transitive) To perceive, interpret or figure out in advance.
- 1922, James Branch Cabell, Gallantry:
  He foreread like a placard Jeanne d'Etoiles' magnificent scheme: it would convulse all Europe.

Noun edit

foreread (plural forereads)

A foreword; preface.