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English
Etymology
From fore- + guide.
Verb
foreguide (third-person singular simple present foreguides, present participle foreguiding, simple past and past participle foreguided)
- (transitive) To guide beforehand or in advance; guide forth or forward.
1888, John Waugh, Messiah's mission: A poem in nine books:The light they saw they followed fearlessly As Israel their clear foreguiding flame; [...]
- 1892, The Social Economist: 1891:
- And so far, Professor Burgess, whose idea of political science should have led him to more philosophic conclusions, making him prophetic instead of legal, falls short of his own opportunities, and gives us rather a work which might have been good for the past, than forecasts and foreguides the future.
1911, The Atlantic Monthly:Maclise, would he or would he not, must drop all and go to town to answer it. With wrath in his heart, therefore, he foreguided his beloved work as best he might, and addressed himself to the downward journey.
2015, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Five Great Greek Tragedies:Let it be mine to keep The holy purity of word and deed Foreguided all by mandates from on high Born in the ethereal region of the sky, Their only sire Olympus; [...]
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