foreshape

To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.

Noun

  1. A forward or projecting form, piece, or shape.
    • [...] wherein this component means is in the form of a module, structurally comprises the forward nose portion of said weapon, and has a lenticular cross section with a foreshape conforming to a Sears-Haack half-body...

Origin

From fore- + shape.

Verb

  1. To shape or mould beforehand; prepare in advance.
    • Thought forecasts and foreshapes experiment, and traces out the consequences as they arise, comparing them with the sharp directness of its expectations. - 1867, The British controversialist and literary magazine, page...
    • What the self is to become thereby ceases to be a fate that haunts it or lies ambuscaded in its circumstances, for the self can foreshape its own career and reality. - 1998, J. Melvin Woody, Freedom's Embrace - Page 79:
    • Thou canst foreshape thy word; The poet is not lord […] - 2002, Bridget Boardman, Poems of Francis Thompson - Page 80:

Forms

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