forebelieve

Verb

forebelieve (third-person singular simple present forebelieves, present participle forebelieving, simple past and past participle forebelieved)

1. (ambitransitive) To believe beforehand; believe in advance.
   • It is possible there may lurk secret wickedness in some blind corner of the heart which we know not of: it is possible that time and temptation, working upon our corruption, may at last draw us into some such sin as we could not forebelieve.1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall, D.D., 2
   • Taking the Lewis-Pollock definition of the might-counterfactual, we get the following analysis of (13) and (14): (13) is equivalent to: (13a) ~ (If God were not omniscient then he would forebelieve my act S.) Assuming that it is necessarily false [...]1991, Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, The dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge