v. Obs. [f. FORE- pref. + READ.] trans. a. To read beforehand. b. To betoken or signify beforehand. c. To predestine.
a. 1620. Bp. Saunderson, Twelve Sermons (1632), 313. Not onely to foreknow the extraordinary plagues and miseries and calamities which shall befall their posterity: but also to fore-reade in them Gods fierce wrath and heavie displeasure and bitter vengeance.
b. 1591. Spenser, Muiopotmos, 26.
| His yong toward yeares, | |
| Full of braue courage and bold hardyhed, | |
| Aboue th’ensample of his equall peares, | |
| Did largely promise, and to him forered | |
| (Whilst oft his heart did melt in tender teares) | |
| That he in time would sure proue such an one, | |
| As should be worthie of his fathers throne. |
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., xiii. 219.
| The first part of whose name, Godiua, doth forereed | |
| Th’first syllable of hers, and Goodere halfe doth sound. |
c. 1617. Fitzgeoffrey, Eleg., III. E vij b.
| Had Fate fore-read me in a Croude to dye: | |
| To bee made Adder-deafe with Pippin-crye. |
Hence Fore-reading vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1557. Grimalde, in Tottell’s Misc. (Arb.), 116.
| Good luck, certayn forereadyng moothers haue, | |
| And you of mee a speciall iudgement gaue. |
a. 1656. Hales, Gold. Rem. (1688), 347. By reason of your fore-reading of Suetonius, you shall find your self, for a good part of the Story, furnished before-hand.
