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Webster 1913 Edition


Forehear

Fore-hear′

,
Verb.
I.
&
T.
To hear beforehand.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forehear

FOREHE'AR

,
Verb.
I.
To be informed before.

Definition 2024


forehear

forehear

English

Verb

forehear (third-person singular simple present forehears, present participle forehearing, simple past and past participle foreheard)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To hear beforehand.
    • 1837 January 1, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, volume 3:
      [] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, "and lap it in elysium."
    • 1905, Margaret Westrup, “Billy's Long Day”, in The Idler, volume 26, page 604:
      In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of "Thieves! Police! Burglars!"
    • 2014, Joseph McElroy, Ancient History: A Paraphrase:
      Holiday labor at the island today: being his guest is a hazardous responsibility: I foresee a swell and forelean to a spumy pitch and forehear the scuff of a badly perched sack of cement as it slips into the racing bay, and my New York imagination []

References

  • forehear in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913