• (RP) IPA: /fɔːˈspiːk/

forespeak (forespeaks, present participle forespeaking; past forespoke, past participle forespoken)

1. (archaic, transitive) To foretell; to predict.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Honest Man's Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 4, scene 1:

     My mother was half a witch; never anything that she forespake but came to pass.

forespeak (forespeaks, present participle forespeaking; past forespoke, past participle forespoken)

1. Alternative form of forspeak.