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Definition of Forespeaks
1. forespeak [v] - See also: forespeak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forespeaks
Literary usage of Forespeaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... nude №1 forespeaks their cattle, doth bewitch ihm am, Themselves, their
servants, and their bib« и nurse. This 1 1 1- y enforce upon me; ..."
2. The American Government by Frederick Jennings Haskin (1912)
"At other times they come hidden in coal-bunkers, chain-lockers, forespeaks, and
other secluded parts of ocean-going vessels. It is stated that many of the ..."
3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"... And, being ignorant of myself, they go About to teach me how to be one ; urging
That my bad tongue (by their bad usage made so) forespeaks their cattle, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1870)
"... boon ;—so man, To Deity linked by life immortal, feels In his inmost being,
when, heart-wrung, he forespeaks Heaven's judgment on iniquitous deed ..."
5. Epea Pteroenta, Or, The Diversions of Purley by John Horne Tooke, Richard Taylor (1840)
"Lost, bx 6 Under Fore-speak, Dutch Veur-spreken, to predict, Mr. Richardson
erroneously places the following : •* That my bad tongue forespeaks their cattle ..."
6. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Israel Gollancz (1893)
"And why on me ? why should the envious world That my bad tongue (by their bad
usage made so) forespeaks their cattle, doth bewitch their corn, Themselves, ..."
7. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, David Garrick (1854)
"Some call me Witch And being ignorant, of myself, they go About to teach me how
to be one: urging That my bad tongue (by their bad usage made so) forespeaks ..."
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