foredeem
Verb

foredeem (foredeems, present participle foredeeming; past and past participle foredeemed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To judge, form a judgement of, or declare beforehand; foretell; forecast; presage.
    ''Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come.
  2. (transitive) To deem or account in advance; consider; take for granted; expect.
    • Of a frende it was more standing with humanitee and gentlenesse to hope the best then to foredeme the worste.
    • Laugh at your misery, as foredeeming you / An idle meteor.
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