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forecatch en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + catch.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To catch beforehand or in advance.
   • On the night before I covered the coals, in the cracked, rheumatic stove, locked the door, put the key on entry shelf and stood for a moment on the door-step to stealthily forecatch the spirit of freedom that blew at me from out the south. 1863, John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's Weekly, volume 7, page 394:
   • In so far as they forecaught the gleam from the morning star they are guides for us. 1929, The Christian Advocate, volume 104, page 13:
   • The child comprehended in his childish way at once, and forecaught the explanation with the interruption: 'Yes, Father, and when they become clogged and jostle each other, the friction causes heat.' 1925, Mabel Hardy Pollitt, A Biography of James Kennedy Patterson, page 96:

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