forefeelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From fore- +‎ feel.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fɔː.fiːl/

動詞

forefeel (三人称単数 現在形 forefeels, 現在分詞 forefeeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 forefelt)

1. (transitive) To feel or perceive beforehand or in advance; to have a presentiment of.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Such a studie was yong Catoes, in fore-feeling his approaching end, who lighting upon Platoes discourse of the soules immortality.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 6, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     […] as touching most fundamental topics, there had got to be established in him some positive convictions, which he forefelt would abide in him essentially unmodified so long as his intelligent part remained unimpaired.