ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED2.] Gifted with or having foresight; characterized or controlled by foresight.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. conc. Relig., I. iv. 54. A foresighted and rational conduct of things to their end.
1700. Astry, trans. Saavedra-Faxardo, II. 37–8. The Thebans did not desire Princes so foresighted, as one may guess by the manner of Painting them with their Ears open, and their Eyes shut, signifying that they ought blindly to execute all the Resolutions of the Senate: but this was not the Emblem of an absolute Prince, but only of a Prince of a Common-wealth, whose Power is so circumscrib’d that ’tis sufficient for him to hear, for the Power of seeing what is to be done, it reserved for the Senate.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 286. The fore-sighted French knew their [the Choktah’s] fickle and treacherous disposition, and that by this story, well supported with presents, they would be able, when occasion required, to excite them to commence a new war against us.
1891. J. C. Atkinson, The Last of the Giant Killers, 121. It was not always or often that the secrets of the great hill, afterwards called Freeburgh, were disclosed, or that the most foresighted and farsighted of mortals could penetrate to a perception of the marvels it brooded over, but only on mystic and stated nights.
