Forecast

Contrivance beforehand; antecedent policy; foresight; forethought. "Alas! that Warwick had no more forecast."-Shaks pose; excluded; not admitted; as, foreign to the purpose, foreign from the argument. - Held at a distance; adventitious; not native or natural. (Law.) Every nation is foreign to all other nations; and the several States of the American Union are foreign to each other, with respect to their municipal laws. But the reciprocal relations between the national Government and the several States are not considered as foreign, but domestic. the student must maintain either the affirmative or the negative of a given question.