foreadvise
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]foreadvise (third-person singular simple present foreadvises, present participle foreadvising, simple past and past participle foreadvised)
- To advise or beforehand; to forewarn.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- As you were fore-advis'd, had touch'd his spirit
References
[edit]- “foreadvise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.