foreguess

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Verb

foreguess (foreguesses, present participle foreguessing; past and past participle foreguessed)

1. (transitive) To guess beforehand.
2. (transitive) To forecast.
3. (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
4. (transitive) To conjecture; assume.

Noun

foreguess (plural foreguesses)

1. A conjecture; an assumption.
   • 1887, The Scottish review:

     […] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.

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