Hampshire, where he lived in the vicinity of the earl of Bute, being very intimate with that nobleman, and having the freest access to his valuable library; but he afterwards removed to Bath, where he died of an asthmatic complaint, on the 1st October, 1796, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. Dr. Fordyce is known as the author of Sermons to Young Women, 2 vols. 12mo., which have been translated into several European languages; A Sermon on the Character and Conduct of the Female Sex; Address to Young Men, 2 vols. 12mo.; Addresses to the Deity; a volume of Poems; A Discourse on Pain, and Additions to his brother's Temple of Virtue.

FORE, adj. & adv. Sax. Foɲe; Goth. vor; Belg. voor. Anterior; coming first in a progressive motion: fore is a word much used in composition to mark priority of time. A vicious orthography, says Dr. Johnson, has confounded for and fore in composition.

Each of them will bear six demiculverins and four sakers, needing no other addition than a slight spar deck fore and aft, which is a slight deck throughout. Raleigh's Essays.

Though there is an orb or spherical area of the sound, yet they move strongest and go farthest in the fore lines from the first local impression.

Bacon.

Resistance in fluids arises from their greater pressing on the fore than hind part of the bodies moving in them. Cheyne.

FORE, a town of Ireland, in Westmeath, twenty-two miles from Dublin, is a small borough, supposed anciently to have bee a seat of learning. It contains the ruins of a monastery and three churches, as well as the cell of an anchorite. It is seated on Lough-Lane, meaning he Lake of Learning. FOREADVI'SE, v. a. counsel early; to counsel before the time of action, or the event.

Fore and advise. To

FOREAPPOINT', v. a. To order beforehand. FOREARM', v. a.

Fore and arm. To provide for attack or resistance before the time of need.

He forearms his care

With rules to push his fortune, or to hear.

Dryden.

persuasion, that, during his passion, whatsoever is offered to his imagination tends only to deceive.

South.

Fore and bode.

Harris.

FOREBO DER, n. s.

Swed. forboda. To prognosticate; to foretell; to foreknow; to feel a secret sense of something future with a mixture of dread and apprehension: foreboder is a soothsayer, or a croaker who is always predicting evil.

An ancient augur, skilled in future fate,
With these foreboding words restrains their hate.

Dryden.

Raleigh's Essays.

FORECASTLE, a short deck placed in the fore part of the ship, above the upper deck it is usually terminated, in vessels of war, by a breast-work, both before and behind; the foremost part forming the top of the beak-head, and the hind-part reaching to the after-part of the fore-chains.

FORECHO'SEN, part. Fore and chosen.

Pre-elected.

FORECITED, part. Fore and cite. Quoted before, or above.

Greaves is of opinion, that the alteration mentioned in that forecited passage is continued.

Arbuthnot.

FORE CLOSE, v. a. Fore and close. To shut up; to preclude; to prevent.

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

Carew.

To foreclose a mortgage, is to cut off the power of redemption. FO'REDECK n. s. Fore and deck. The anterior part of the ship.

I to the foredeck went, and thence did look For rocky Scylla. Chapman's Odyssey. FOREDESIGN, v. a. Fore and design. To plan beforehand.

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All the steps of the growth and vegetation, both of animals and plants, have been foreseen and foredesigned by the wise Author of nature. Cheyne. FORE'DO, v. a. From for and do, not fore, says Dr. Johnson. Mr. Horne Tooke considers it as a corruption of forth-done, i. e. done, go forth; or caused to go forth, i. e. out of doors; in modern language, turned out of doors.' But we have a Saxon compound fordon, of the same signification; and we cannot but regard Dr. Johnson as nearer the truth: to fore or fordo, for it is found both ways, is to do for,' to finish; a common colloquial expression: ruin; to destroy; opposed to making happy; to overdo; to weary; to harass.

But al so colde towardes the

Thy ladies is as frost in winter mone; And thou fordon-as snowe in fire is sone. Chaucer. Troilus and Creseide. Beseeching him, if either salves or oils, A foredone wight from door of death might raise, He would at her request prolong her nephew's days. Faerie Queene.

Id.

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Whilst the heavy plowman snores, All with weary task foredone. OREDOOM, v. a. Sax. Foɲdeman. Fore and doom. To predestinate; to determine beforehand.

Through various hazards and events we move To Latium, and the realms foredoomed by Jove. Dryden's Eneid. The willing metal will obey thy hand, Following with ease: if favoured by thy fate, Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

Fate foredoomed, and all things tend By course of time to their appointed end. Id. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home.

Pope.

FORE-END, n. s. Fore and end. The anterior part.

I have lived at honest freedom; paid
More pious debts to heaven than in all
The fore-end of my time.

Shakspeare. Cymbeline. In the fore-end of it, which was towards him, grew a small green branch of palm.

Bacon.

FOREFATHER, n. s. Fore and father. Ancestor; one who in any degree of ascending genealogy precedes another.

FOREFE'ND, v. a. It is doubtful whe from fore or for and defend.If from for implies antecedent provision; as forearm from for, prohibitory security; as forbid. the two following examples one favors for, the other fore.'-Johnson. To prohibit; to a I would not kill thy unprepared spirit; No, heavens forefend! I would not kill thy so Shakspe

Down with the nose,
Down with it flat: take the bridge quite away
Of him, that, his particular to forefend,
Smells from the general weal.

Perhaps a fever, which the gods forefend, May bring your youth to some untimely end. Drya FOREFI'NGER, n. s. Fore and finger. finger next the thumb; the index.

An agate stone

Shakspea

On the forefinger of an alderman. Polymnia shall be drawn, as it were, acting speech with her forefinger. Peacham on Drawi Some wear this on the middle-finger, as the anc Gauls and Britons; and some upon the forefinger. Brow

FO'REFOOT, n. s. Plural forefeet. F and foot. The anterior foot of a quadruped: contempt, a hand.

He ran fiercely, and smote at Heliodorus with forefeet. 2 Mac. iii. 24 Give me thy fist, thy forefoot to me give. Shakspeare I continue my line from thence to the heel; th making the breast with the eminency thereof, bri out his near forefoot, which I finish.

Peacham on Drawing

FORE-FOOT, a piece of timber which term nates the keel at the fore end. It is connect by a scarf to the extremity of the keel, of whic it makes a part; and the other end of it, whi is incurvated upwards into a sort of knee, is a tached to the lower end of the stem of whic it also makes a part, being also called the gripe FOREFRONT, n. s. Fore and front. Th anterior front of a thing or place.

Upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. Exod. xxviii. 31. Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle. 2 Sam, xi, 15.

parts.

Id.

Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts, I know Not how to entertain him. Denham's Sophy. To this false foreigner you give your throne, And wronged a friend, a kinsman, and a son. Dryden's Æneid. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavouring to set me right.

Locke.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures, that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it, placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Id. Water is the only native of England made use of in punch; but the lemons, the brandy, the sugar, and Id. the nutmegs, are all foreigners.

The parties and divisions amongst us may several ways bring destruction upon our country, at the same time that our united force would secure us against all the attempts of a foreign enemy. Id. Freeholder.

This design is not foreign from some people's thoughts. Swift. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater lustre, either to foreigners or subjects.

Id. The positions are so far from being new, that they are commonly to be met with in both ancient and modern, domestick and foreign, writers. Atterbury.

"Twas merely known, that on a secret mission A foreigner of rank had graced our shore, Young, handsome, and accomplished, who was said (In whispers) to have turned his sovereign's head. Byron.

FOREIGN, in the English law, is used in various significations. Thus :

FOREIGN ATTACHMENT, is an attachment of the goods of foreigners found within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of some citizen to whom the foreigner is indebted; or it signifies an attachment of a foreigner's money in the hands of another person.

At the instance of an ambassador or consul, any offender against the laws here may be sent for hither from a foreign kingdom to which he hath fled. And, where a stranger of Holland, or any foreign country, buys goods in London, for instance, and there gives a note under his hand for payment, and then goes away privately into Holland in that case, the seller may have a certificate from the lord mayor, on the proof of the sale and delivery of such goods, whereupon a process will be executed on the party in Holland.

FOREIMAGINE, v. a. Fore and imagine. To conceive or fancy before proof.

We are within compass of a foreimagined possibility

in that behalf.

FOREJUDGE', v. a. judge beforehand; to be judge.

FOREKNOW, v. a.
FOREKNOWLEDGE, N. S.
FOREKNOW'ABLE, adj.

Camden's Remains.

Fore and judge. To prepossessed; to pre

Fore and know. To have prescience of; to foresee: possi

knowledge of that which has not yet happened.

Wherefore for to departen softily,

Toke purpose ful this wight, forknowing, wise; And to the Grekes host, ful prively,

He stale anon.

Chaucer Troilus and Creseide.

It is certainly foreknowable what they will do in More. such and such circumstances.

Our being in Christ by eternal foreknowledge, saveth us not without our actual and real adoption into the fellowship of his saints in this present world. Hooker. I told him you was asleep: he seems to have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore chuses to speak with you. Shakspeare.

We foreknow that the sun will rise and set, that all men born in the world shall die again; that after Winter the Spring shall come; after the Spring, Summer and Harvest; yet is not our foreknowledge the cause of any of those. Raleigh.

He foreknew John should not suffer a violent death, into his grave in peace. If I foreknew,

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Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.

Milton.

FORELA'Y, v. a. Fore and lay. To lay wait for; to intrap by ambush; to contrive antecedently.

A serpent shoots his sting at unaware; An ambushed thief forelays a traveller: The man lies murdered, while the thief and snake, One gains the thickets, and one thrids the brake.

Dryden. FORELIFT', v. a. Fore and lift. To raise aloft any interior part.

So dreadfully he towards him did pass, Forelifting up aloft his speckled breast;

And often bounding on the bruised grass, As for great joy of his new comen guest. Spenser. FORE'LOCK, n. s. Fore and lock. The hair that grows from the forepart of the head.

Tell her the joyous time will not be staid,
Unless she do him by the forelock take. Spenser.
Hyacinthine locks,

Round from his parted forelock manly hung,
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad.

Zeal and duty are not slow,

Milton

Id.

But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. Swift. FORE'MAN, n. s. Fore and man. The first or chief person.

He is a very sensible man, shoots flying, and has been several times foreman of the petty jury. Addison,

FOREMENTIONED, adj. Fore and mentioned. Mentioned or recited before. It is observable that many particles are compounded with fore, whose verbs have no such composition. Dacier, in the life of Aurelius, has not taken notice of the forementioned figure on the pillar.

Addison on Italy. FOREMOST, adj. From fore. First in place: first in dignity.

All three were set among the foremost ranks of fame, for great minds to attempt, and great force to perform what they did attempt.

These ride foremost in the field,
As they the foremost rank of honour held.

Sidney.

Dryden. The bold Sempronius, That still broke foremost through the crowd of patriots, As with a hurricane of zeal transported, And virtuous even to madness.

Addison's Cato

And such are sure ones,

As Curius and the forenamed Lentulus.

Ben Jonson. FORE'NOON, n. s. Fore and noon. The time of day reckoned from the middle point, between the dawn and the meridian, to the meridian: opposed to afternoon.

The manner was, that the forenoon they should run at tilt, the afternoon in a broad field in manner of a battle, 'till either the strangers or the country knights won the field. Sidney.

Curio, at the funeral of his father, built a temporary theatre, consisting of two parts turning on hinges, according to the position of the sun, for the conveniency of forenoon's and afternoon's diversion.

Arbuthnot on Coins.

FORENOTICE, n. s. Fore and notice. Information of an event before it happens.

So strange a revolution never happens in poetry, but either heaven or earth give some forenotice of it. Rymer's Tragedies. FOREN'SIC, adj. Lat. forensis. Belonging to courts of judicature.

Person is a forensick term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents, capable of a law, and happiness and misery. This personality extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness.

FOREPA'ST, adi Fore and past. Past be fore a certain time.

Now cease, ye damsels, your delights forepast; Enough it is that all the day is yours. Spenser.

My forepast proofs, howe'er the matter fall,
Shall tax my fears of little vanity,
Having vainly feared too little.

Shakspeare. offer and tender of a reconciliation, an act of oblivion, Such is the treaty which he negociates with us, an of all forepast sins, and of a new covenant.

Hammond on Fundamentais.

FOREPOSSES'SED, adj. Fore and possess Preoccupied; prepossessed; preengaged.

The testimony either of the ancient fathers, or of other classical divines, may be clearly and abundantly answered to the satisfaction of any rational man, not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. FORERA'NK, n. s. Fore and rauk First rank; front.

Sanderson.

Yet leave our cousin Catherine here with us; She is our capital demand, comprised Within the forerank of our articles.

Shakspeare.

Fore and recite.

FORERECITED, adj.
Mentioned or enumerated before.
Bid him recount

The forerecited practices, whereof
We cannot feel too little, hear too much.

Shakspeare.

FORERU'N, v. a. Fore and run. To come FORERUNNER, n. s. before as an earnest of binger: to precede; to have the start of: an harsomething following; to introduce as an harthe approach of those that follow: a prognostic; binger; a messenger sent before to give notice of a sign foreshowing any thing.

Against ill chances men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.

Shakspeare.

The forum was a public place in Rome, where lawyers and orators made their speeches before the proper judges in matters of property, or in criminal cases: thence all sorts of disputations in courts of justice, where several persons make their distinct speeches, may come under the name of forensick disputes.

Watts on the Mind.

Id.

Dryden.

Id.

Byron.