forehalsen
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[edit ]forehalsen (third-person singular simple present forehalsens , present participle forehalsening , simple past and past participle forehalsened )
- (transitive , rare , archaic ) To presage; predict.
- 1899, Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne, The World's Great Classics:
- "[...] One day, perhaps, my pen forehalsening Will dare what now of thee 'tis purposing."