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発音

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈsɛnt/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌsɛnt/

動詞

forescent (三人称単数 現在形 forescents, 現在分詞 forescenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 forescented)

1. To detect the scent of (something) before it is present.
   • 1849, John Griffith Mansford, Anno Mundi 1656, and Anno Domini 1849, London: Nisbet & Co., p. 6,^[1]

     birds and wild animals forescent a storm, or an earthquake

   • 1916, William Ellery Leonard (translator), Of the Nature of Things by Lucretius, London: J.M. Dent, Book 4, pp. 160-161,^[2]

     […] the white goose,
     The saviour of the Roman citadel,
     Forescents afar the odour of mankind.

2. (figuratively) To detect or become aware of (something) in advance.

   Synonyms: anticipate, foresee

   • 1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Boston: Ginn & Company, Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 462,^[3]

     the sagacity with which Iago feels and forescents his way into Roderigo

   • 1915, Frederick Goodyear, letter to F.W. Leith Ross in Letters and Remains: 1887-1917, London: McBride, Nast, 1920, p. 94,^[4]

     Possibly we instinctively forescented the war.

名詞

forescent (複数形 forescents)

1. A scent that indicates something in advance.

   Coordinate term: afterscent

   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], “chapter 13”, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891, page 229:

     an appalling forescent of his own near approaching discomfiture