foregrasp

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ grasp.

Noun

foregrasp (uncountable)

1. A prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
   • 2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse:

     Each of these terms is the product of the irony which comes from having obtained a foregrasp of mundaneity while attempting to articulate mundaneity within the idiom which mundaneity supports.

Verb

foregrasp (third-person singular simple present foregrasps, present participle foregrasping, simple past and past participle foregrasped)

1. (transitive) To grasp beforehand.
   • 2007, George MacDonald, Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul:

     Thy great deliverance is a greater thing Than purest imagination can foregrasp; A thing beyond all conscious hungering, Beyond all hope that makes the poet sing.