Definition of foresight

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Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..

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Forewit :: Forewit (n.) Foresight; prudence.
Presciently :: Presciently (adv.) With prescience or foresight.
Contingently :: Contingently (adv.) In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
Long-sighted :: Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing..
Outsee :: Outsee (v. t.) To see beyond; to excel in cer/ainty of seeing; to surpass in foresight.
Providence :: Providence (n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience..
Forecast :: Forecast (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation..
Foresighted :: Foresighted (a.) Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.
Prescience :: Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Improvidence :: Improvidence (n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
Fortuitous :: Fortuitous (a.) Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
Foresightful :: Foresightful (a.) Foresighted.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) Foresight.
Prospective :: Prospective (n.) Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective.
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..
Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a..
Suppose :: Suppose (v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight..
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Improvident :: Improvident (a.) Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man..
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