foresing

To sing beforehand or in advance.

Verb

  1. To sing beforehand or in advance.
    • Jacob with the patriarchs (Himself their patriarch) through all his own Life's space the gladdest times of Christ foresang By words, act, virtue, toil. - 1870, Alexander Roberts, Sir James Donaldson, Ante-Nicene...
    • God grant that I as thou May still at heart have Spring, Still may the fair To-be feel through the niggard Now And in the Winter-night the summer-day foresing! - 1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence: New Poems:
    • They whispered like the windy river-reeds In thoughts that rise far under heights of Heaven — Did they foresing to Heaven of this day ? - 1912, Isabella Fiske Conant, Gabriel: A Pageant of Vigil:

Origin

From fore- + sing.

Forms

foresings foresinging foresang foresung

Related

besing