1580. Sidney, Arcadia, II. xviii. 181 b. Full loth was Erona to let us depart from her, (as it were) forefeeling the harmes which after fell to her.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIV. 13.
| And, as when with unwieldy waves the great sea forefeels winds | |
| That both ways murmur, and no way her certain current finds. |
a. 1632. T. Taylor, God’s Judgem., I. I. lii. (1642), 410. Sinners … very often turmoyled and butchered with their owne guilty conscience, overcharged with the multitude of offences, and fore-feeling the approach of hell.
1810. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXIX. 1 May, 320/1.
| ’Twill make my mother happy. To forefeel | |
| Her coming joy, redoubles my delight. |
1851. Maurice, Patriarchs & Lawg., vi. (1867), 122. He will find that that service and those objects were in very deed foreshown and forefelt in his childish aspirations.
Hence Forefeel sb.; Forefeeling (whence Forefeelingly adv.), Forefelt ppl. adjs.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 380.
| But thou, sure Hope, tickle my leaping heart. | |
| Comfort, step thou in place of wonted sadnesse: | |
| Fore-felt Desire, begin to sauour part | |
| Of comming gladnesse. |
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1658), 782. A divine prudence and forefeeling knowledge originally inbred by Nature.
1805. Southey, Madoc, I. xi.
| His spirit, on the past | |
| Brooding, beheld, with no forefeeling joy, | |
| The rising sons of song, who there essayed | |
| Their eaglet flight. |
| ‘A venal band | |
| Who are to judge of danger which they fear, | |
| And honour which they do not understand.’ |
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxii.
| She flies, spirit-torn, round the heavens, | |
| Like a fore-feel of madness about the brain. |
