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foreguide

foreguide verb: to guide beforehand or in advance; guide forth or forward.

Verb

foreguide (third-person singular simple present foreguides, present participle foreguiding, simple past and past participle foreguided)

  1. (transitive) To guide beforehand or in advance; guide forth or forward.
    • The light they saw they followed fearlessly As Israel their clear foreguiding flame; [...]1888, John Waugh, Messiah's mission: A poem in nine books
    • And so far, Professor Burgess, whose idea of political science should have led him to more philosophic conclusions, making him prophetic instead of legal, falls short of his own opportunities, and gives us rather a work which might have been good for the past, than forecasts and foreguides the...1892, The Social Economist: 1891

Examples of foreguide in a sentence

  • With wrath in his heart, therefore, he foreguided his beloved work as best he might, and addressed himself to the downward journey.1911, The Atlantic Monthly:
  • Let it be mine to keep The holy purity of word and deed Foreguided all by mandates from on high Born in the ethereal region of the sky, Their only sire Olympus; [...]2015, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Five Great Greek Tragedies:

Forms of foreguide

third-person singular presentforeguides
present participleforeguiding
past participleforeguided
pastforeguided

Origin of foreguide

From fore- + guide.

Words formed from foreguide

  • foreguidance

Questions about foreguide

What does foreguide mean?
Foreguide means to guide beforehand or in advance; guide forth or forward.
How do you use foreguide in a sentence?
With wrath in his heart, therefore, he foreguided his beloved work as best he might, and addressed himself to the downward journey.
What part of speech is foreguide?
Foreguide is a verb.
What is the past tense of foreguide?
The past tense of foreguide is foreguided.

Words near foreguide in the dictionary

  1. foreguards
  2. foreguess
  3. foreguessed
  4. foreguesses
  5. foreguessing
  6. foreguide
  7. foregut
  8. foreguts
  9. forehall
  10. forehalls
  11. forehalsen

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