foreˈact v.
[f. fore- prefix + act v.]
trans. and intr. To act beforehand (see senses of act v.).
| 1757 Dyer Fleece i. 261 Sagacious care foreacts. 1840 R. I. Wilberforce 5 Empires 33 The great deeds of the Son of God foreacted in dumb show in the ordinances of God's worship. |
Hence fore-acted ppl. a.; fore-acting vbl. n.
| a 1618 Sylvester Job Triumph. Proem 865 To finde some hole in my fore-acted Life. 1652 Caryl Exp. Job xi.–xiv. 507 These dispensations being (præludia gloriæ) the fore-actings of a glorified estate. 1682 2nd Plea for Nonconf. 26 Their fore-acted Conspiracies. |