Meaning of forescent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To detect the scent of (something) before it is present.
2. To detect or become aware of (something) in advance.
   figuratively

Examples

“birds and wild animals forescent a storm, or an earthquake”

“[…] the white goose, The saviour of the Roman citadel, Forescents afar the odour of mankind.”

“1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Boston: Ginn & Company, Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 462, the sagacity with which Iago feels and forescents his way into Roderigo”

“1915, Frederick Goodyear, letter to F.W. Leith Ross in Letters and Remains: 1887-1917, London: McBride, Nast, 1920, p. 94, Possibly we instinctively forescented the war.”

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