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Foresee v. t. (past foresaw; past part. foreseen; pres. part. foreseeing)

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil."

To provide. (Obs.) "Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life."

Foresee v. i. (past foresaw; past part. foreseen; pres. part. foreseeing) To have or exercise foresight. (Obs.)

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"Foresee" Quotes from Famous Books

... delicately-gloved hand on Nan's shoulder; and then Sophy Paine joined the little group, and Mrs. Forbes and Miss Twentyman left off talking to Phillis, and began listening; with all their might. Now it was that Nan began to foresee difficulties. ...

— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey

... replied the voice of reason from the lips of Miss Paget; "it is all foolishness from beginning to end, and I can foresee nothing but trouble as the result of such folly. What will your mamma say to such an engagement? or what will Mr. ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... his realm and royal right. Such care a meed in heaven will bring Better than rites and offering. Such care a king his country owes As man upon himself bestows, When for his body he provides Raiment and every need besides. For future days should kings foresee, And keep the present error-free." Thus did the King the kings exhort— They heard, and turned them from the court, And, each to each in friendship bound, Went forth to all the realms around. The rites were o'er, the guests ...

— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... "he was alive and here this day. He cannot have been disposed of in so short a space, he must be still alive, he must have fled! And then, why fled? and how? and in that case, can we venture to declare this suicide? Oh, we must be careful. I foresee that we may yet involve your master in ...

— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

... Christian kingdoms should be held as fiefs under St. Peter (Baronius, Annales, tom. xvii. p. 430; cf. Villemain, Histoire de Gregoire VII., Paris, 1873, tom. ii. pp. 59-61), does not seem to have appealed to the Donation. Perhaps he was shrewd enough to foresee the kind of objection afterwards raised by the Albigensians, who pithily declared that if the suzerainty of the popes was derived from the Donation, then they were successors of Constantine and not of St. Peter. (Moneta Cremonensis, Adversus Catharos et Waldenses, ed. Ricchini, Rome, 1743, v. ...

— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

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