a. [f. as prec. + -FUL.] Full of or possessed of foresight.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 104. Death gave him not such pangs as the foresightfull care he had of his silly successour.
Ibid., 205.
| Giue vs foresightfull mindes; giue vs mindes to obey | |
| What foresight tels; our thoughts vpon thy knowledge stay. |
1668. G. C., in H. More, Div. Dial., 2nd Pref. (1713), 27. This may raise a Genius (in this Philosophical Age) over-wanton and coy, and such as will keep aloof off from being so heartily concerned in the Apostolick Truths of Christianity as they ought, his foresightful Solicitude in the behalf of the Kingdom of God, and for the preventing the growth or appearance of any such mischievous Monster.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, II. 75.
| Thou also, O most holy prophetess | |
| Foresightful of futurity. |
1889. F. Hall, in The Nation (N.Y.), 9 May, XLVIII. 389/1. A fluent, graceful, well-informed, and, for the most part, foresightful writer, and withal indefatigable.
