foreanswer

Verb

1. To answer beforehand or in advance
   • But notwithstanding he has fore-answered from the nature of things all that he can say about different interpretations, yet he proceeds in twenty tedious pages to enumerate those differences, which lie ranges under...
   • It seemed a little severe to be shut away from her now but Mrs. Fuller's manner had fore-answered any appeal and I held my peace. - 1900, Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country - Page 298:
   • [...] and whether that buying public can really be increased to the extent hoped for by the dollar-book publishers is a question that cannot easily be foreanswered. - 1930, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature,...