forehear

Verb

forehear (third-person singular simple present forehears, present participle forehearing, simple past and past participle foreheard)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To hear beforehand.
   • […] mingled into one beautiful and continuous peal of that earthly harmony which Heaven has given us as a forehearing of those sublimer harmonies that, in its everlasting bowers, take the imprisoned soul, "and lap it in elysium."1837 January, “The Pleasures of Winter”, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, volume 3
   • In that flash of time as his fingers had touched the handle of the table-spoon, he had foreseen John's wild rush to the doors, he had foreheard John's agitated cry of "Thieves! Police! Burglars!"1905, Margaret Westrup, “Billy's Long Day”, in The Idler, volume 26, page 604