Verb
To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
To utter predictions.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDesire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill
It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy. Yoshijirō Umezu
The "determinist” swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything” means nothing. Paul Valéry
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. Albert Camus
We might even predict annually how many individuals will stain their hands with the blood of their fellow-men, how many will be forgers, how many will deal in poison, pretty nearly in the same way as we may foretell annual births and deaths. Adolphe Quetelet