forthlook
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English forthloken, from Old English forþlōcian (“to look forth”), equivalent to forth- + look.
Verb edit
forthlook (third-person singular simple present forthlooks, present participle forthlooking, simple past and past participle forthlooked)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To look forth; look out.
Noun edit
forthlook (plural forthlooks)
- A looking forth, forward, or ahead; an outlook; prospect; projection.
- 1872, Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, New Englander and Yale review:
- This essay is a thoughtful forthlook to the time when, at the approaching disestablishment of the Episcopal Church in England, Congregationalism will be placed on a new footing — [...]