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noun

Forecast n.

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination. "He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves."

A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast. "His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp."

verb

Forecast v. t. (past & past part. forecast or forecasted; pres. part. forecasting)

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. "He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds."

To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices. "It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences."

Forecast v. i. (past & past part. forecast or forecasted; pres. part. forecasting) To contrive or plan beforehand. "If it happen as I did forecast."

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Etymology of 'Forecast'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of races is going to turn out English, or thereabout. But the problem is the Territorial belt, and in the group of States on the Pacific coast. Above all, in these last we may look to see some singular hybrid—whether good or evil, who shall forecast? but certainly original and all their own. In my little restaurant at Monterey, we have sat down to table, day after day, a Frenchman, two Portuguese, an Italian, a Mexican, and a Scotsman: we had for common visitors an American from Illinois, a ...

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... operators now and then make mistakes, and I don't claim exceptional powers of precision. It's remarkably difficult to forecast ...

— Ranching for Sylvia • Harold Bindloss

... financial position of the country are all subjects treated as fully as possible, inasmuch as they are matters essential to be understood in order to realise the Japan of to-day. The Japan of the future I have attempted to forecast in two final chapters. ...

— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery

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— A Journal of the Plague Year • Daniel Defoe

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