foreguessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

foreguess (三人称単数 現在形 foreguesses, 現在分詞 foreguessing, 過去形および過去分詞形 foreguessed)

1. (transitive) To guess beforehand.
   • 1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge:

     The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.

2. (transitive) To forecast.
3. (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
4. (transitive) To conjecture; assume^[1].
   • 1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons:

     " [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."

派生語

• foreguessing

名詞

foreguess (複数形 foreguesses)

1. A conjecture; an assumption.
   • 1887, The Scottish review:

     […] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.

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