foreconceive
Verb

foreconceive (foreconceives, present participle foreconceiving; past and past participle foreconceived)

  1. (transitive) To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
      I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.



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