Definition of "foresay"

foresay

/fɔː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/

verb
third-person singular simple present foresays, present participle foresaying, simple past and past participle foresaid
1. (transitive, archaic) To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
2. (transitive) To decree; ordain; appoint.
  Quotations
  Let ordinance / Come as the gods foresay it.
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene ii]