Upon this foot it will be impossible for any church ever to secure the profession of any mysterious doctrine against secret meanings and subtile evasions; but men may subscribe to as many mysteries as they please, and still believe none of them.-Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 301

All hail, Patroclus! let thy honoured ghost
Hear, and rejoice, on Pluto's dreary coast;
Behold! Achilles' promise is compleat;
The bloody Hector stretch'd before thy feet.

As once she watch'd me from a rail, Poor soul; her footing chanc'd to fail, And down she fell, and broke her hip.

Prior. Down Hall.

One thing, indeed, we do affirm, because we can prove it fron Scripture, that whoever preaches and enforces moral duties, without justification and sanctification preceding, may as well declaim upon the advantages of walking, to a man that can neither stir hand nor foot. Horne. An Apology for Certain Clergymen.

FOP.

FO'PPERY.
FO'PLING, n.

FO'PPISH. FO'PPISHLY. FO'PPISHNESS.

The form of the feet fixes the character of the animal. They are so many shovels; they determine its action to that of rooting in the ground, and every thing about its body agrees with this destination. Paley. Natural Theology, c. 15. But laying another world out of the question, taking things on the footing of this life only, still it can be clearly

shown, that the crooked wisdom of the world is no better than foolishness.-Blair, vol. v. Ser. 17.

Skinner thinks a Teut. Fobis or Pofisz, a kind of fungus he should rather have said from Dut. Pof, fungosus, poffen, to puff, efflare inanes glorias. One puffed up with vainlory; ostentatiousness, (sc.) of his person or

iress.

Take from your true subiectes, the Pope's false Christ ith his bels and bablinges, with his miters and mastries, ith his fannoms and fopperies.

Bayle. Preface to English Votaries.

A fop! in this brave, licentious age,
To bring his musty morals on the stage?
Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress
in metre, as Druids did the savages?

Tuke. The Adventures of Five Hours, Act v.

Boldly I dare, I say,

There has been more by us in some one Play, Laugh'd into wit and vertue, than hath been By twenty tedious Lectures drawn from sin And foppish humours.

But I shall discover to ye, readers, that this his praising f them is as full of nonsense and scholastic foppery, as his meaning he himself discovers to be full of close malignity. Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus.

VOL. I

But this foppishness
Is wearisome; I could at our saint Antlins,
Sleeping and all, sit twenty times as long.
Which is she?

Calam. Why this, fop-doodle.

Massinger. The Great Duke of Florence, Act ii. sc. 1. Farce scribblers make use of the same noble invention [laughter] to entertain citizens, country gentlemen, and Covent garden fops.

Dryden. A Parallel of Poetry and Painting.

FOR.
FORA'SMUCH.
FORSO MUCH.
FORTHY.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xxiii. always one and the same single signification, viz. Cause, and nothing else. Though Greenwood attributes to it eighteen, and S. Johnson forty-six different meanings; for which Greenwood cites above forty, and Johnson above two hundred instances. But with a little attention to their instances, you will easily perceive, that they usually attribute to the preposition the meaning of some other words in the sentence. Junius (changing pinto f, and by metathesis of the letter r) derives for from the Gr. Пpо. Skinner, from the Lat. Pro. But I believe it to be no other than the Gothic substantive, fairina,—Cause.”

Upon the passages (from Chaucer and P. Plouhman) referred to by Mr. Tyrwhitt in his Glossary, and quoted below, Tooke observes, that though their construction is awkward and faulty, yet is the meaning of For equally conspicuous. The cause of putting on the habergeon, of the advice not to open the gate, of sowing the sack, being respectively-that the heart might not be pierced, that the rose might not be stolen, that the wheat might not be shed.

Id. Ib. Act ii. sc. 4.

In their present state I cannot recommend, [Lord Chesterfield's Letters,] being of Dr. Johnson's opinion, that they teach the manners of a fop, and the morals of a harlot. Beattie. Moral Science, pt. iv. c. 1. s. 4.

No truth, no sincerity: without which, conversation is but words; and the polish of manners the idlest foppery. Hurd. On Retirement, Dial. 2.

the widow's cast, being that others cast part of their " plentee," but that she of "her povertec keste alle thingis that sche hadde."

A fair place heo cheson hem, & there heo gonne arere
Walles wyde and strong ynow, casteles as hit were,
And a storide hit wel ynow, and here god ther inne bere,
For to a bide the kyng, gef he wolde a sayle hom there.
R. Gloucester, p. 18.
He bigan to schake ys axe, for to smyte anon,
Ac knygtes cride, & gede bitwene hem mony on.-Id. p.25.
Tho the emperour herde this, he bigan hym by thenche,
And hys wraththe toward the kyng, for drede of the erl
quenche. Id. p. 58.

& led hii vnto France, spoused for to be.

Whilom he serued in his panterie, & was outlawed for a felone.

R. Brunne, p. 30

Eft God thei bisouht, to saue tham in that cas,
Sauely to hauen he brouht, for luf of S. Thomas,
That for holy kirke suffred martirdam,

& God for tham gan wirke, how a voice cam.-Id. p. 148.
Ac on a May morwenyng. on Malverne hulles,
Me by fel for to slepe. for weyrynesse of wandryng.
Piers Plouhman, p. 1.

Treuly I seye to you that this pore widow keste more than alle that kesten into the tresorye, for alle kesten of that thing that thei hadden plentee of, but this of hir poverte keste all thingis that sche hadde al her lyf lode.

Wiclif. Mark, c. 12.

Id. p. 33.

But at the laste whanne the ellevene disciplis saten at the hem and the hardnesse of herte, for thei beleviden not to mete, Jhesus apperide to hem and reprevede the vnbelive of hem that hadden seyen that he was risun fro deith.

Id. Ib. c. 16.

And whanne every temptacioun was ended the fend wente awaye fro him for a tyme.-Id. Luk, c. 4.

But what wenten ye out for to se? a profete? yhe Y seye to you and more than a profete.-Id. Ib. c. 6.

I seye to you, though he schal not rise and gyue to him, for that, that he is his frend, netheles for his contynuel axing he schal rise and gyue to him as many as he hath

nede to.-Id. Ib. c. 11.

For he was late ycome fro his viage,
And wente for to don his pilgrimage.
Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 78.

A semely man our hoste was with alle
For to han ben a marshal in an halle.
He didde next his white lere
Of cloth of lake fin and clere,

A breche and eke a sherte,
And next his shirt an haketon,
And over that an habergeon,
For percing of his herte.

Id. The Rime of Sire Thopas, v. 13,791. Therefore for stealing of the rose I rede her nat the yate vnclose.-Id. The Rom. of the R. Wel ofter of the well than of the tonne She dranke, and for she wolde vertue plese, She knew wel labour, but non idel ese.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8092.

If we have given ourselves up to be taught by the pure, and living precept of God's word only; which without more additions, nay with a forbidding of them, hath within itself the promise of eternall life, the end of all our wearisome labours, and all our sustaining hopes.

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Milton. Of Prelatical Episcopacy.

FORCE, v. FORCE, n.

Chaucer. The Monkes Tale, v. 14,532.

FOR-CARVE, v. Į A. S. For-ceorfan; for,
FORCUT, V.
Si. e. forth, thorough.
To carve or cut through; or off.
Right as a swerd forcutteth and forkerveth
An arm atwo, my dere sone, right so
A tongue cutteth frendship all atwo.

Chaucer. The Manciples Tale, v. 17,389.

Fr. Forcer; It. Forzare; Sp. Forzar; Low Lat. Fortiare; from fortis, strong, say all the etymologists.

"Force or Forse, a cascade or waterfall. Su. Goth. Fors, a cataract. The High Force in Teesdale is an object of great sublimity," (Brocket.) Fors, (in Scotch,) a stream or current, (Jamieson.) See Fors in Jamieson, and Ihre.

And heo a forcede hom the more, the hethene a wey to dryue. R. Gloucester, p. 121.

The Latin phrase, parvi, nihili pendo, I value little, nothing, is of equivalent meaning, i. e. "I weigh, give or allow (little, no) weight. I do no force, I give or allow no force, no strength, no weight to your divinity."

To force, in modern usage, is,-to have or give strength or power; to strengthen, to fortify; to use, exert or employ strength or power; to compel, to overpower, to subdue; to effect or accomplish, to acquire, by strength or power, by violence;-to violate.

FORCEDLY.
FORCEDNESS.
FORCEFUL.
FO'RCELESS.

FO'RCELET.

FORCER.
FORCEMENT.

FORCIBLE.
FORCIBLY.
FORCING, n.

The usage by Chaucer and Camden appears to us extraordinary. Tyrwhitt explains the word in the passages from the former, thus, "No force, no matter. I do no force, I care not. I do no force of your divinitee. I care not for your divinity. No force of death.-No matter of death." Jamieson (in v. Fors) says, "This verb (i. e. the especial usage of the verb in such instances as those explained by Tyrwhitt, and by himself in his Dictionary,) is formed from the French phrase (in Cotgrave) Je ne fait point force de cela: I care not for, I force not of, I am not moved by, that thing."

But trewely, min owen maister dere,
This was a pitous tale for to here:
But nathles, passe over, is no force.

Id. The Pardoneres Prologue, v. 12,237. It little forceth how long a man liue, but how wel and

For either they must of force go on the Christian coast, and so fall into their hands, or els on this coast, and fall into the kings of this towne, or Tripolis, their hands, which if they should, will neuer be recouered. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 174.

My lady, and my love, and wif so dere,
I put me in your wise governance,
Cheseth yourself which may be most plesance,
And most honour to you and me also,
I do no force the whether of the two;
For as you liketh, it sufficeth me.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6816.
I do no force of your divinitee.-Id. Freres Tale, v. 7094.
Now rekke I never to be ded right here,
Sin I stond in your love, and in your grace,
No force of death, ne whan my spirit pace.

From a desire of forcing mutually our own opinions upon
others, instead of exhorting them to study and obey the
Gospel of Christ; have risen strifes and contentions, hatred
and uncharitableness, schisms and divisions without end.
Clarke, vol. i. Ser. 48.
But most their looks on the black monarch bend,
His rising muscles and his brawn commend,
His double-biting axe and beaming spear
Each asking a gigantic force to rear.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8968.
Therof no force, good yeman, quod our host,
Sin of the conning of thy lord thou wost.
Telle how he doth, I pray thee heartily,
Sin that he is so crafty and so sly.

Dryden. Palamon & Arcite.
This foundation of the earth upon the waters doth most

Id. The Chanones Yemannes Prologue, v. 16,120. aptly agree to that structure of the abyss and antediluvian earth; but very improperly and forcedly to the present form of the earth and the waters.-Burnet. Theory.

Ach. A short deliberation in this

May serve to give you counsel: to be honest,
Religious and thankfull, in themselves
Are forcible motives, and can need no flourish
Or gloss in the perswader.

Chapman. Hymn to Hermes, pt. iii.

Beaum. & Fletch. The False One, Act i. sc. 2.

Yet was the stroke so forcibly applide,
That made him stagger with uncertaine sway,
As if he would have tottered to one side.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11.

Let other rapes of virgines, forcings of honourable dames be forgotten: let us imagine that we have nothing to doe, nor to meddle with Philip, for fear of whose crueltie ye were all so mute, and could not open your mouth.

Holland. Livivs, p. 822.

Cur. No doubt ye may compel her, But what a mischievous unhappy fortune May wait upon this will of yours, as commonly Such forcings ever end in hates and ruines.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Pilgrim, Act i. sc. 1.

Against the forcedness and incongruity of this sense much might be said.-Worthington. On the Millennium, p. 2. On his broad shoulders fell the forcefull brand, Then glancing downward lopp'd his holy hand, Which stain'd with sacred blood the blushing sand. Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. v. Now the usual means for the ascent of water, is either by suckers or forcers, or something equivalent thereunto. Wilkins. Daedalus, vol. ii. c. 15.

The desire of knowing more is itself natural, and so lawful; and there is no desire more strong and forcible in man fallen, who is in any degree exalted above sense.

Bp. Bull, vol. ii. Disc. 5.

For the Holy Spirit moves and inclines only, and does not compel; he leads and conducts as many as will be led and conducted by him, but does not so forcibly attract them, as to overrule all stubborn resistance or reluctant perverseness. Waterland. Works, vol. ix. p. 330.

Warin was exceedingly fond of money, and having forced his daughter, who was beautiful, to marry a rich and deformed officer of the revenue, she poisoned herself a few days after the wedding, saying, "I must perish since my father's avarice would have it so."

Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. c. 3.

To gain something like a satisfactory conclusion in this point, it were well to examine, what proportion is; since several who make use of that word, do not always seem to understand very clearly the force of the term, nor to have very distinct ideas concerning the thing itself.

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iii. s. 2.
Oct. 9, 1769. After dinner I went along the Milthrope
turnpike four miles to see the falls or force of the river Kent.
Gray. To Dr. Wharton.
Didst thou to heaven address the forceful prayer,
Fold thy fair hands, and raise the mournful eye,
Implore each power benevolent to spare,

And call down pity from the golden sky?
Langhorne. To Miss Cracroft.

He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented, he unites energy with copiousness, and dignity witn variety.-Louth, vol. ii. Lect. 21. By Gregory.

When I consider this, I seem more inclined than the generality even of sober critics to excuse the false accounts of the Pagan writers concerning the Exodus; who concur in representing the Jews as expelled or forcibly driven out of Egypt.-Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 6.

FORCEMEAT, i.e. farced meat, stuffed meat. See FARCE. FORCEPS. FO'RCIPAL. FO'RCIPATED. FORCIPATION.

Forceps (says Vossius) dicitur quasi ferricapis, hoc est, (ferrum, quo quid capimus sive prehendimus; the iron or steel with which we take or hold any thing.

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Mechanicks made use hereof in forcipal organs, and instruments of incision.-Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. 2.

The locusts have antennæ or long horns before, with a long falcation or forcipated tail behind.

Id. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 3

And a punishment (bowelings and consuming inen's entrails by fire) surely it is, though of great terror, yet by reason of the quick dispatching, of less torment far than either the wheel or forcipation, yea than simple burning. Bacon. Observations on a Libel.

At which time all her motions, some of which were judged convulsive, and others, that had been excited by our rousing her with a forceps, appeared to cease, and her head to hang carelessly down as if she was quite dead.

Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 369.

In many insects the mouth is converted into a pump or sucker, fitted at the end sometimes with a wimble, sometimes with a forceps; by which double provision, viz. of the tube and the penetrating form of the point, the insect first bores through the integuments of its prey, and then extracts the juices.-Paley. Natural Theology, c. 12.

FOR-CLOSE, v. Usually written fore-close. FORCLO'SURE. Fr. Forclorre; for, Fr. Fors or hors, out; and close, Lat. Clausum, from claudere; Fr. Clorre. Forclose

To shut out or exclude, to block out, close up, to debar. For the legal application of the word, see the quotation from Blackstone.

There could come no succour unto the, no nor any victuals be conueyed in for theyr reliefe, the waies being foreclosed by the enemy.-Goldinge. Cæsar, p. 66.

Now it fell out so that the continuall rains which overflowed all the fields, had foreclosed and stopped the passages three wayes betwene his armies, so as they could not help one another.-Holland. Livivs, p. 298.

You resolve notwithstanding, to proceed in your own way, and to make a show of saying something, though you find yourself already foreclosed, and every objection obviated. Waterland. Works, vol. ii. p. 265.

Our question is barely upon the pleading before us, whether we have a sufficient pleading of such an impeachment as can foreclose the hands of the court?

State Trials. Charles II. Edward Fitzharris.

The mortgagee may either compel the sale of the estate, in order to get the whole of his money immediately; or else call upon the mortgagor to redeem his estate presently, or in default thereof, to be for ever foreclosed from redeeming the same, that is, to lose his equity of redemption without possibility of recall.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 10.

FORD, v.
FORD, n.
FO'RDABLE.

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Junius and Skinner agree, that Ford is from Far-an, ire, transire, to go, to go over. And Tooke that it is the past part. of that verb; and always, without exception, means gone, i. e. a place gone over or through, (Div. of Purley, ii. 179.) Upon this past part. the verb, to ford, has been formed.

To go or pass through or over; generally applied, when shallow water is to be passed; or

met.

Thus in devotion having eas'd their grief, From sacred oracles they seek relief; And to Cephisus' brook their way pursue; The stream was troubled, but the ford they knew. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. The Iron Age. FOR-DO, v. In Chaucer, (Frankeleynes Tale,) "I am fordo," says Tooke, "is I am forth-done, i. e. done to go forth, caused to go forth, i. e. out of doors. In modern language, turned out of doors.

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Somner; Fordoen, fordon, perdere, pessundare, to destroy, to undoe." Dut. Ver-doen. But this is merely a consequential signification; he that is forth-done, turned out of, deprived of, house and home, "who may there no longer dwell," is consequently, undone.

Thus than was the sawe whilom in that cite
The pape fordid that lawe, the skille can I not se.
R. Brunne, p. 322.
For that that kynde doth. unkynde for doth.

Piers Plouhman, p. 334.

Alas (quod he) alas, that euer I beheyght
Of pured gold a thousande pounde of weight
Unto this phylosopher, how shall I do?
I se no more, but that I am fordo;
Myne herytage mote I nedes sell,
And ben a beggar, here may I no lenger dwell.
Chaucer. The Frankeleynes Tale, v. 11,866.

This monk began upon this wif to stare,
And sayd, alas! my nece, God forbede,
That ye for any sorwe, or any drede,
Fordo yourself.

Id. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 1357.
Delicacie his sweet toothe
Hath suffred so that it fordoothe
Of abstinence all that ther is.-Gower. Con. A. Prol.

Wilt thou not first go see where thou hast left
Anchisis thy father fordone with age?

Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii.
Felowe, he seyde, what dyd thou there?
Syr, wyth my lord on the were,
That now to dedd ys dyght;
As Sowdears, my brodur and Y,
We have noght ellys to leve by,
Owre fadur fordyd owre ryght.

Le Bone Florence of Rome. Ritson, vol. iii. Thus Lord, is thy mercy and justice fordone by him that sayth he is thy vicar on earth; for he neither keepeth it himself nor will, nor suffer other to do it.

Fox. Martyrs, p. 370. The Complaint of the Ploughman.

Right so fareth loue that seld in one
Holdeth his ancre, for right anone
Whan thei in ease wene best to liue
They ben with tempest all fordriue.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. FOR-DRUNKEN. A. S. For-drenkan; for, i. e. forth.

Utterly drunk, extremely drunk.
The miller that fordronken was all pale,
So that unethes upon his hors he sat,
He n'old avalen neither hood ne hat.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 3122.

He was parde an old felaw of youres,
And sodenly he was yslain to-night,
Fordronke as he set on his benche upright.

Id. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 1268. A. S. For-drigan; for, i.e. forth,

FOR-DRY. and dry, (qv.) Utterly dry, quite dry.

Amidde a tree fordry, as white as chalk,
As Canace was playing in hire walk,
Ther set a faucou over hire hed ful hie,
That with a pitous vois so gan to crie.

Chaucer. The Squires Tale, v. 10,723.
FOR-DWINED.
Dut.
A. S. For-dwinan ;
Ver-dwynen, for, i. e. forth, and dwine or dwindle,
(qv.)

To consume, to waste, to vanish, utterly away.
Her face frounced and forpined
And both hir hondes lorne fordwined
So old she was, that she ne went
A foote.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.

FORE. A. S. Foran, fore; Dut. Veur, voor; Ger. Fur, vor, prior or anterior in space or time. In the diagram by Wilkins, for the clearer explication of the local prepositions, it is placed at the front of the figure of the man, and described as referring either to motion or rest.

And so it was that where Jacob the Patriarke a litle before he shoulde dye, being endowed with the spirite of prophecye, dyd fore-saye veray thynges which shoulde afterwarde come to passe.-Udal. Luke, c. 1.

But the Phariseis were neuer the better, neyther for that they vnderstoode the prophecies & for-sayingis of the prophetes, nether because they had so ofte tymes hearde Jesus preache vnto them the heauenlye doctrine.

Udal. Marke, c. 7.

He was not the Sonne of God, but a voyce fore-shewing the Sonne of God, who anon after should be disclosed to the world.-Id. Ib. c. 1.

Now is Daniel called to be the fore-shewer of the iugement of God) neither saluting the king) nor praysyng his giftis. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 5. Their for-ships al to landward then to turne, and inward bend

He bids his mates, and to the deepe floud glad he doth descend. Phaer. Virgil. Eneidos, b. vii.

I trust it shall so come to pass that neither I shall repent me, for that I haue giuen you counsaill, nor yet you shail fore-thinke yourselfe, that you haue obeyed and followed my aduice.-Wilson. Arte of Rhetorique, p. 40.

For mine owne part I saw them not, but I am resolued that so many people did not all combine, or fore-thinke to make the report.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 653.

And finallie, [how contrarious] to the ancient lawes, customes, and examples of our fore-elders during the daies of a thousand yeares after Christ, they were.-Fox. Martyrs, p. 1073. Notes for Legitimation of Priest's Children.

Like as a feareful dove, which through the rain
Of the wide ayre her way does cut amain
Having farre off espyde a tassell gent,

Which after her his nimble winges doth straine,
Doubleth her haste for feare to bee for-hent,
And with her pineons cleaves the liquid firmament.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. e. 4.
Pansophus now, though all in the cold sweat,
Dares venture through the feared castle gate,
Albe the faithful oracles have fore-sayne
The wisest senator shall there be slaine.
Bp. Hall, Sat. 1. b vi,
When the crowned cock.
That to the village lately was the clock,
Comes to roost by him, with his hen, fore-shewing
The shower would quickly fall, that then was brewing.
Drayton. Noah's Flood.
For if I ever thought or rather dream'd of ioyes,
That litle lightning but fore-show'd a thunder of annoyes,
It was but like a fruit that Tantalus torments,

Which while he sees and naught obtains. his hunger but
augments.
Stirling. Avrora, Elegie 2.
His sanguine beames about his forehead spreed,
A sad presage of ill that should betide,
With vermile drops at eu'n his tresses bleed,
Fore-shews of future heat.

Fairfax. Godfrey of Boulogne, b. iii. s. 34. The fertile Nilus never rashly mov'd, Which (ag'd in trauell) many countreys knows, Whose inundation by the labourer lov'd, As barrennesse or plenty it fore-shows.

Stirling. Doomes-day. Third Houre. He thought rue she should, and fore-thinke That she her had unto him misbore.

Browne. The Shepherd's Pipe, Ecl. i. I then express'd my zeale Unto the glory, now the need inflames me: When I fore-think the hard conditions, Our states must undergo, except, in time, We do redeeme ourselves to liberty

And breake the iron yoke forg'd for our necks.

B. Jonson. Catiline, Acti

FORE-BODE, v.
FOREBO DE, n.

A. S. Fore-bodian, bodian; Ger. Bieten.

FOREBO DING, n.

To see or discern; to shew or exhibit, before, or prior: to prognosticate.

And in thy lower rooms the wolves shall howl,
And thy gilt chambers lodge the raven and the owl,
And all the wing'd ill-omens of the air
Though no new ills can be fore-boded there.
Cowley. Isaiah, c. 34.

There is upon many fore-bodes, and seeming more than probabilites, out of the Revelation, one great fate to come upon the Churches of Christ; the last killing of the witnesses, that hath been so long fore-warned of by many witnesses.-Goodwin. Works, vol. ii. pt. iv. p. 72.

He cautious backward drew
His horse compell'd; fore-boding, in his fears,
The rattling ruin of the clashing cars,

The floundering coursers rolling on the plain,
And conquest lost through frantic haste to gain.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xxii.
For the Atheists can never wholly extinguish those hor-
rible fore-bodings of conscience.-Bentley, Ser. 1.

Cicero called upon him [Matius] on his way from Rome into the country, and found him sullen, desponding, and fore-boding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.

Middleton. Life of Cicero, vol. iii. s.9.

The Earl, who watched perpetually over him as his guardian angel, and forgot his own infirmities to provide against those of his son, expresses great anxiety on these occasions, and seems with difficulty to conceal some fore-bodings of the event.-Chesterfield. Misc. Works vol. i. Mem. by Maty.

FORE-BY, i. e. Forth-by, out by.

Not farre away [quoth he] he hence doth wonne Foreby a fountaine, where I late him left, Washing his body wounds that through the steele were cleft.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 6

FORE-CAST, v.

As when a falcon hath with nimble flight Flowne at a flush of ducks, foreby the brooke, The trembling foule dismayd with dreadfull sight Of death, the which them almost overtook, Doe hide themselues from her astonyng looke. Id. Ib. b. v. c. 3. To cast in one's mind FORECAST, n. before hand, (Minshew.) FORECASTING, n. To cast or throw (met.) the mind or thoughts forward: to think, to meditate, on what is future, on what is to be or come to pass; to foresee or provide, to anticipate.

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If I haue knowne hir,
You will say, she did embrace me as a husband,
And so extenuate the fore-hand sinne.

Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act iv. sc. 1. Wid. Go, thou art a pretty fore-handed fellow, would thou wert wiser.-Beaum. & Fletch. Scornful Lady, Act ii. sc. 1.

He told me I must go then to have my trial at the King's Bench bar. Lord, says I, I wonder I had no fore-hand notice of it. I have no witnesses ready; he answered, he could not help it, but go I must.

State Trials, an. 1678. Introd. to Trials for Pop. Plot.

FORE-HEAD. A. S. Fore-heafod; Dut. Veur-hoofd; frons, anterior pars capitis, i. e.

The front, or anterior part of the head; above the eyes.

And I saigh, and lo a lomb stood on the Mount of Syon, and with him an hundride thousynde and four and fourti thousynde hauynge his name and the name of his fadir writun in her forheedis.-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 14.

And I loked, and lo, a lamb stode on the Mount Sion, & wyth hym an c. and xliiii. m. hauynge hys father's name writte in their foreheades.—Bible, 1551. Reuelacion, c. 14. Her flesh so tender That with a brere small and tender Men might it cleue, I dare well saie Her forhedde frounceles all plaie.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. He commaunded, but if they auoided the citie of Rauenne, by certayne day assigned, that menne marken hem on the forhedde with an hotte yron, and chasen hem out of the toune. Id. Boecius, b. i.

And with a stroke (as he was wondrous strong,) He cleft his crown that on his helm he wore, And tore his plume, that to his heels it hung; Then with a second bruis'd his helm before, That it his forehead pitifully wrung.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

It was the question of the rich and precious jewell of England, to which his hardie adversarie had never the face to reply. My refuter's forehead is stronger with a weaker wit; let him trie here the power of audacitie.

Bp. Hall. Honour of the Married Clergie, b. i. s. 3. A savory dish, a homely treat Where all is plain, where all is neat, Without the stately spacious room, The Persian carpet, or the Tyrian loom, Clear up the cloudy foreheads of the great. Dryden. Horace, b. iii. Ode 29.

For if that name of gentillesse be referred to renoune and clerenesse of linage, than is gentil name but a forain thing, that is to say, to hem that glorifien hem of her linage. Id. Ib. b. iii. Foraine gentilnesse ne maketh thee nat gentill.-Id. Ib. Yea prosperous pastimes these may bee iustly counted, by which he [King Edgar] also made euident to the whole world, that as he wisely knew the ancient bounds and limits of this British empire, so that he could and would royally, iustly, and triumphantly enioy the same, spite of the Deuil, and maugre the force of any foraine potentate.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 8.

The Jews did in manier interprete the name of neighbour, to extende no ferther but to menne of their owne nacion, supposing that it was lawfull for them to hate alienes and foreinours, and to leat them alone without dooyng them any benefite or good at all.-Udal. Luke, c. 10.

Which that those knights likewise mote understand, And witnesse forth aright in forrain land, Taking them up unto her stately throne, Where they mote heare the matter throughly scand On either part, she placed th' one on the one, Th' other on th' other side, and neare them none. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 9.

He who is not trusted with his own actions, his drift not being known to be evil, and standing to the hazard of law and penalty, has no great argument to think himself reputed in the commonwealth wherein he was born, for other than a fool or a foreigner.-Milton. Of Unlicensed Printing.

So Dryden, not contented with the fame
Of his own works, though an immortal name,
To lands remote sends forth his learned Muse,
The noblest seeds of foreign wit to choose.
Granvill. To Dryden.

Rebels were sainted, foreigners did reign,
Outlaws return'd, preferment to obtain,
With frogs and toads, and all their croaking train.
Dryden. Suum Cuique.

Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavouring to set me right.-Locke.

He [the Catholic] was rendered a foreigner in his native land only because he retained the religion along with the property handed down to him from those, who had been the old inhabitants of that land before him.

Burke. Speech at Bristol, previous to the Election. FORE-JUDGE, v. To pre-judge or prejuFOREJUDGMENT.

before; (sc.) trial, examination, proof.

They were takyn as prysoners in the Towre of London, and soone after for-iugyd, haged, and hedyd, and their heddys also sette vpon London brydge.

Fabyan, vol. ii. an. 1400. It is not my part to make any ones title either better or worse with my fore-iudgment.-Udal. Marke, Pref. That all the Gods which saw his wondrous might, Did surely deeme the victorie his due: But seldome seene, fore-iudgement proveth true.

Spenser. Muiopotmos. Now if we should acquit this man (we have no assurance we shall acquit him, only suppose it) then there is nothing against him but what lies in a parliamentary way, and we shall fore-judge their cause.

State Trials, an. 1681. Edward Fitzharris.

FORE-KNOW.
FOREKNOWABLE.
FOREKNO'WER.

Dut. Veur-kennen; Ger. Vorkennen. Fore, and know; A. S. Cnawan. FOREKNO'WING, n. To know before; to have FOREKNO'WLedge. a prescience of, a foresight or providence; to foresee, to foreweet, (qv.)