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fóre-gleáw

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Grammar
fóre-gleáw, fore-gleáw (for-)
Substitute:
fore-seeing, fore*-*knowing, knowing what is to happen,
by natural means
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  • Swá hit foregleáwe ealde úðwitan ǽror fundan,

    • Men. 165
    • .
by supernatural means,
prophetic
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  • Hé fǽgra manna forðsíð foregleáw sǽde, wís ðurh wítegunge wísdómes gǽstes,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 152, 2
    • .
  • Mid foregleáwre clypunge

    presago vocabulo,

    • An. Ox. 4846
    • .
  • Æfter forewittigum (foregleáwe; gydde (wítedóme)

    secundum praesagum uaticinium (i. prophetiam ),

    • 3707.
having forethought, provident, prudent
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  • Sý hé á foregleáw (for-, R. Ben. I. 108, 16) on his gebodum

    sit in imperiis suis providus,

    • R. Ben. 121, 15
    • .
  • Tó ǽfengereordunga lambes foregleáwes

    (providi),

    • Hy. S. 82, 3
    • .
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