Foreguess

Origin

From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to - + guess.

Full definition of foreguess

Verb

1. (transitive) To guess beforehand.
• 1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge:The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.
2. (transitive) To forecast.
3. (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
4. (transitive) To conjecture; assume.
• 1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons:" ... He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."

Derived terms

• foreguessing

Noun

1. A conjecture; an assumption.
• 1887, The Scottish review:... form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.