foreknowableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

foreknowable (not comparable)

1. That may be known in advance.

   Antonym: unforeknowable

   • 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The First Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph XX, page 84:

     And ſuch are the Actions of all thoſe that are deeply lapſed into Corruption, and of thoſe fevv that are grovvn to a more Heroicall ſtate of Goodneſs: It is certainly foreknovvable vvhat they vvill do in ſuch and ſuch circumſtances.

   • 1911, J. A. Smith (translator), Aristotle (original), Nicomachean Ethics, "Introduction"

派生語

• unforeknowable

参照

• “foreknowable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.