Fóre-gleáw

Dizionario Anglo-Sassone Inglese Antico di Bosworth & Toller - fóre-gleáw

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

fóre-gleáw
Substitute: fore-gleáw (for-) (1) fore-seeing, fore-knowing, knowing what is to happen, (a) by natural means:--Swá hit foregleáwe ealde úðwitan ǽror fundan, Men. 165. (b) by supernatural means, prophetic:--Hé fǽgra manna forðsíð foregleáw sǽde, wís ðurh wítegunge wísdómes gǽstes, Hml. Th. ii. 152, 2. Mid foregleáwreclypunge presago vocabulo, An. Ox. 4846. Æfter forewittigum (foregleáwe; gydde (wítedóme) secundum praesagum uaticinium (i. prophetiam), 3707. (2) having forethought, provident, prudent:--Sý hé á foregleáw (for-, R. Ben. I. 108, 16) on his gebodum sit in imperiis suis providus, R. Ben. 121, 15. Tó ǽfengereordunga lambes foregleáwes (providi), Hy. S. 82, 3. fore-gleaw
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