Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To feel beforehand; have a premonition of.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To feel beforehand; feel as if by presentiment.
- n. In psychology, an anticipatory feeling or anticipatory tactual perception; a tactual image associatively aroused by the presentation of a visual, auditory, etc., stimulus.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To feel or perceive beforehand or in advance; to have a presentiment of.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
Etymologies
- From fore- + feel. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Shall it not be by putting ourselves directly to the work favoring the foundation of new schools, which shall be ruled as much as possible by this spirit of liberty, which we forefeel will dominate the entire work of education in the future?”
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That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
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mollusque The forefeel of fame was as heady as the old wines of nostalgia.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 23 Jun 7, 2009