forespeak
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"Do not forespeak us, brother," said Angus; "that is not lucky."
From A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott
She could forespeak them so that they should give poison instead of milk, and the cream she had once overlooked was never fit for the “yirning.”
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
She stood at the pier-head and as they passed poured a cup of ale into the sea, to forespeak good luck for the fleet.
From Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Those, meanwhile, who knew anything that boded ill, concealed it, lest they might seem to forespeak ill-luck.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
Cattle, like human beings, were exposed to the influences of the evil eye, of forespeaking, and of the casting of evil.
From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Sir James George Frazer
Susanna Edwards was active and powerful in forespeaking.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
We'll therefore, if you please, support our praises with some testimonies of Holy Writ also, in the first place, nevertheless, having forespoke our theologians that they'll give us leave to do it without offense.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
Thou hast forespoke my being in these warres, And say'st it is not fit Eno.
From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Kinred, nacion, contrey, kynde, age, bryngynge vp, or discipline, hauioure of the body, fortune, condicion, nature of the mynde, studies, affectacion, wordes forespoken, & deedes done before, commocion, counsell, name.
From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt
The forespoken farmer caused the one whom he most suspected to be seized and examined, who at last confessed, after making “much ado,” and taking up the time of the worshipful justice to no good.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
The woman told the man he had an ill neighbour, and that the child was forespoken.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
"And you think she was forespoken?" said Nicholas, addressing her.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
So when the boy had returned from the errand forespoken, the herald announced that he must hasten after the two knights and bid them return.
From In the Court of King Arthur by Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) Lowe
