foreconsider

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ consider.

Verb

foreconsider (third-person singular simple present foreconsiders, present participle foreconsidering, simple past and past participle foreconsidered)

1. (transitive) To consider beforehand; think about in advance.
   • 1837, Joseph Hall, The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter:

     Could we, then, foreconsider the everlasting torments which attend the momentary pleasures of sin, we would say to the best and most plausible of them, as sir Thomas is reported a to have said to his wife, "Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple:" […]

   • 1996, Informatica:

     Correspondingly, it is reasonable to expect beneficial results from a further elaboration of the foreconsidered nonlinear approach, in particularly, the joint integral analysis and the use of concepts of self-organization, information, adaptation [...]

Derived terms

• foreconsidered