Definition of "forescent" in English

verb

1. To detect the scent of (something) before it is present.

2. (figuratively) To detect or become aware of (something) in advance.

   • 1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Boston: Ginn & Company, Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 462, the sagacity with which Iago feels and forescents his way into Roderigo
   • 1915, Frederick Goodyear, letter to F.W. Leith Ross in Letters and Remains: 1887-1917, London: McBride, Nast, 1920, p. 94, Possibly we instinctively forescented the war.

noun

1. A scent that indicates something in advance.