forereckon

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ reckon.

Verb

forereckon (third-person singular simple present forereckons, present participle forereckoning, simple past and past participle forereckoned)

1. (transitive) To reckon beforehand or in advance; prefigure
   • 1878, The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated:

     The past is leaving us, the untried and unknown future is before us, and we can none of us forecast or forereckon what Seventynine, another twelve months, will bring to us and ours. What 1878 has been 1879 may not be, or vice versa ; [...]

   • 1884, John Huntley Skrine, Under Two Queens:

     Nay, who that hath lent unto Time may forereckon the fruit of his loan ? As the need of their day was they did, and their morrow hath cared for its own. What rose of our spring shall we gather this morn for the grave of a sire ?

   • 2005, D. Greven, Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature:

     In his bower, Coverdale onanistically counts “the innumerable clusters of my vine,” and forereckons “the abundance of my vintage.”

   • 2008, Kelly James Clark, Readings in the Philosophy of Religion - Second Edition:

     Does it not belong to the secret black-art of truly grand politics of vengeance, of a vengeance far-seeing, underground, slowly-gripping and forereckoning, that Israel itself should deny and crucify before all the world the proper tool of its vengeance, [...]

Derived terms

• forereckoning