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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To foreknow.
- n. Timely knowledge; precaution; foresight.
- n. [⟨ fore + wit, a clever man.] One who puts himself forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism.
Wiktionary
- n. One who puts himself forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism.
- n. Timely knowledge; precaution; foresight.
- v. transitive, obsolete To foreknow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
- n. Foresight; prudence.
Etymologies
- From Middle English forwiten, from Old English forewitan ("to foreknow"), equivalent to fore- + wit (“to know”). (Wiktionary)
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