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foreconsider

foreconsider verb: to consider beforehand; think about in advance.

Verb

foreconsider (third-person singular simple present foreconsiders, present participle foreconsidering, simple past and past participle foreconsidered)

  1. (transitive) To consider beforehand; think about in advance.
    • Could we, then, foreconsider the everlasting torments which attend the momentary pleasures of sin, we would say to the best and most plausible of them, as sir Thomas is reported a to have said to his wife, "Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple:" […]1837, Joseph Hall, The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter
    • Correspondingly, it is reasonable to expect beneficial results from a further elaboration of the foreconsidered nonlinear approach, in particularly, the joint integral analysis and the use of concepts of self-organization, information, adaptation …1996, Informatica

Forms of foreconsider

third-person singular presentforeconsiders
present participleforeconsidering
past participleforeconsidered
pastforeconsidered

Origin of foreconsider

From fore- + consider.

Words formed from foreconsider

Questions about foreconsider

What does foreconsider mean?
Foreconsider means to consider beforehand; think about in advance.
What part of speech is foreconsider?
Foreconsider is a verb.
What is the past tense of foreconsider?
The past tense of foreconsider is foreconsidered.

Words near foreconsider in the dictionary

  1. forecondemnation
  2. forecondemned
  3. forecondemning
  4. forecondemns
  5. foreconscious
  6. foreconsider
  7. foreconsidered
  8. foreconstruct
  9. forecount
  10. forecounts
  11. forecourse

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