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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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"Forecast" Quotes from Famous Books

... to Peter, Christ had asserted His right absolutely to control His servant's conduct and fix his place in the world, and His power to foresee and forecast his destiny and his end. But in these words He goes a step further. 'I will that he tarry'; to communicate life and to sustain life is a divine prerogative; to act by the bare utterance of His will ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren

... which characterize the two speakers are recorded of this time. The one is that of Louis XV, who with all his odious vices, his laziness, and unkingly seclusion, was not devoid of intelligence. "All this," he said, "will last as long as I shall," and his forecast was justified: the "deluge" came long after he had gone to his account; and the phrase stands against him as an expression of his base selfishness, which saw the coming troubles without caring about them, because he believed that they would not come in his day. The other saying is that of Voltaire, ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various

... writing to him, Selwyn invented a hundred different reasons—only to discard them all. Nor was Elise more able to satisfy herself as to the outcome of the meeting. It was not his actions that were difficult to forecast, but her own. Would her dislike of him be intensified? Would she experience again the momentary rapture of that ...

— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... position of various powers in relation to it, and suggested a line of conduct. There was straightforward good sense in his whole contention, a refreshing absence of conventionalities, and a very clear insight into the realities of the question, with a shrewd forecast of the result. More interesting to me was another conversation, in the spring of 1899. As the time drew near for the sessions of the Peace Conference at The Hague, I was making preparations for leaving Berlin to take up my duty in that body, when one morning there ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

... came of running away from home with Gerald. It was remarkable that she seldom thought of Gerald. He had vanished from her life as he had come into it—madly, preposterously. She wondered what the next stage in her career would be. She certainly could not forecast it. Perhaps Gerald was starving, or in prison ... Bah! That exclamation expressed her appalling disdain of Gerald and of the Sophia who had once deemed him the paragon of ...

— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

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