[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That forecasts, in senses of the vb.
1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV. (an. 1), 13. By his prudent and forecastyng councell he somewhat stayed till he might se the ayre clere and no darcke cloude nere to the place where the listes were.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 5. Being in his Nature and constitution of minde not very apprehensiue or forecasting of future Euents a-farre off, but an Intertainer of Fortune by the Day.
1688. Boyle, Final Causes Nat. Things, iv. 166. We may infer, That these Temporary Parts were Fram’d by a Forecasting, as well as a Designing, Agent, who Intended they should Serve for such a Turn, and then be laid Aside.
1807. Scott, Lett., 15 May. Your Ladyship will … commend my early and fore-casting prudence in this matter.
1856. Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., 296. It is a remark of Wieland’s, that although the life of man is measured by the term of fourscore years and ten, yet that his ideal existence, or, as he calls it, his ‘unacted life,’ meaning thereby his period of dreamy, projective, and forecasting existence, would occupy a far wider space.
Hence Forecastingly adv.
1548. Thomas, Ital. Gram. (1567), Prouidamente, wisely or forecastyngly.
1677. Miege, Eng.-Fr. Dict., Forecastingly, avec prevoiance.
1860. All Year Round, No. 39, 21 Jan., 299/1. Enmities had to be forecastingly provided against.
