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fore-witig

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fore-witig, -wittig.
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sagacious
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  • Þá forewittigan

    sagacissimam,

    • An. Ox. 70.
  • His foregengan wǽron on gleáwscype swíþe bescáwede and forewittige,

    • Lch. iii. 436, 12
    • .
foreknowing
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  • Drihten cwæð tó ðǽre byrig, 'Gif þú wistest hwæt þé tóweard is . . .' Gif seó buruhwaru ðǽre yrmðe forewittig wǽre,

    • Hml. Th. i. 404, 33
    • .
  • Basilius wearð gebróht on legere tó his forðsíðe, forewittig swá þeáh,

    • Hml. S. 3, 565
    • .
presaging, prophetic
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  • Mid forewitigum þurh*-*bláwen gáste

    presago afflatus spiritu,

    • Angl. xiii. 370, 64
    • .
  • Æfter forewittigum gydde

    juxta praesagum naticinium,

    • An. Ox. 3707
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    • 2868
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  • Mid forewittigere gelícnysse

    praesago simulacra,

    • 1968.
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