foreknow ( k silent)

t. [Pref. fore-, and Eng. know (q. v.).] A. Trans.: To know beforehand; to have a prescience of. "Nor hath Jove given us to foreknow When the rich years of virtue shall succeed." West: Pindar: Nemean Ode i. B. In trans.: To have prescience or foreknowledge of things; to be prescient. "If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault." Milton: P. L. , iii. 117. IMG:content-0015.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: Foreknowledge, prescience. före-know-ing-lý ( k silent), adv . [Eng. fore knowing ; -ly .] With foreknowledge or prescience; deliberately; of deliberate purpose.