forestate

Verb

forestate (third-person singular simple present forestates, present participle forestating, simple past and past participle forestated)

1. (transitive) To state in advance
   • That was the occasion when the Cardinal Gonsalvi, knowing whom he should please, and what schemes were in progress, ventured to forestate the decision of the parliament on the Bill that now engages its attention.1841, Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Speeches of Henry lord Brougham
   • It is far from being what I should like to write about them, but perhaps enough has been said to forestate the problem as it appears to one who has traveled with these children and learned to know them “in the open.”1896, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 77