资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Foreknow \Fore*know"\, v. t. [imp. {Foreknew}; p. p.
   {Foreknown}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foreknowing}.]
   To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

         Who would the miseries of man foreknow?  --Dryden.