foresing
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]foresing (third-person singular simple present foresings, present participle foresinging, simple past foresang, past participle foresung)
- (transitive) To sing beforehand or in advance.
- 1870, Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Christian Library:
- Jacob with the patriarchs (Himself their patriarch) through all his own Life's space the gladdest times of Christ foresang By words, act, virtue, toil.
- 1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence: New Poems:
- God grant that I as thou May still at heart have Spring, Still may the fair To-be feel through the niggard Now And in the Winter-night the summer-day foresing!
- 1912, Isabella Fiske Conant, Gabriel: A Pageant of Vigil:
- They whispered like the windy river-reeds In thoughts that rise far under heights of Heaven — Did they foresing to Heaven of this day ?