English

Noun

forestating ‎(uncountable)

1. A stating in advance
   • 1878, Annual Report of the Secretary of War - Volume 1:

     When the forecasts or indications thus published are examined in reference to accuracy of preannouueement of the state of the weather only (not the forestating, as is the custom, the changes of the barometer, thermometer, and average wind-direction to happen), the average percentage of accuracy is found to be 90.7 per cent, verified.

   • 2013, Roger Gard, Henry James:

     In the next sentence we have an acknowledged parenthesis, a forestating of a logical objection or question: 'There was a succession of days, at all events, when contact with him—and in its immediate effect, as if it could produce no other— […]

Verb

forestating

1. present participle of forestate