forethink

• “This indeed I know, that we generally think before on our future actions, and that that forethinking is present, but the action whereof we forethink is not yet, because it is to come.”

  The Confessions

• “And anon a voice said to him, Flee, Launcelot, and enter not, for thou oughtest not to do it; and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.”

  Chapter XV. The Seventeenth Book. How Sir Launcelot Was afore the Door of the Chamber wherein the Holy Sangreal Was

• “Nay, said Gawaine, ye shall not but if I be beat; it shall not forethink me then if ye go after me.”

  Chapter II. The Sixteenth Book. Of the Vision of Sir Ector, and How He Jousted with Sir Uwaine Les Avoutres, His Sworn Brother

• “Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness.”

  Unspoken Sermons Third Series

• “And anon he would have entered, but a voice said, Flee, Sir Lancelot, and enter not, for and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.”

  Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries

• “Ralegh vouches neither for the Amazons in the province of Topago, nor for these Ewaipanomas, 'For my part I saw them not, but am resolved that so many people did not all combine, or forethink to make the report.”

  Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography

• “You may live to forethink [regret] the setting of her up, if it were so," was all he said.”

  Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution

• “Let, then, thy words be few, but advised; forethink whether that which thou art to speak be fit to be spoken; affirm no more than what thou knowest to be true; and be rather silent than speak to an ill, or to no purpose.”

  The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.

• “Whether it be true or no, the matter is not great, neither can there be any profit in the imagination; for mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine or forethink to make the report.”

  The Discovery of Guiana

• “As I said above, they value not the pleasure, they are raised by no inclination to the man, the passive jade thinks of no pleasure but the money; and when he is, as it were, drunk in the ecstasies of his wicked pleasure, her hands are in his pockets searching for what she can find there, and of which he can no more be sensible in the moment of his folly that he can forethink of it when he goes about it.”

  Moll Flanders

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