Crossword clues for foretaste
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foretaste \Fore"taste`\, n. A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
Foretaste \Fore*taste"\, v. t.
To taste before full possession; to have previous enjoyment or experience of; to anticipate.
To taste before another. ``Foretasted fruit.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A taste beforehand. 2 A sample taken in anticipation; enjoyment taken in advance. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To taste beforehand. 2 (context transitive English) To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation. 3 (context transitive English) To taste before another.
WordNet
n. an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
Usage examples of "foretaste".
The month brought such spring as came to the Andean highlands, mainly a foretaste of the seasonal rains that would begin next month in earnest.
The little U-boats pitched and rolled, and played at standing on end, while everyone inside clung on desperately to pipes and steel projections a foretaste of how these boats would behave in the heavy storms of the North Atlantic.
Off to Montpelier for a long vacation, foretaste of the simple but delightful life soon to come.
I had to do with three devotees, two hideous and the third ravishingly beautiful, who had already had a foretaste of the joys in store for her.
In point of fact she was awake, and I took a foretaste of greater joys by a thousand kisses, which she returned with interest.
This reply gave me a foretaste of the bliss I had to gain, but I did not wish to expose myself to an illness by going into the water in my present state.
And look to your skin when he does, monsieur the catchpoll, for, on my honour, you shall have a foretaste of hell for your trouble in this matter.
Grammar, with its mixture of logical rule and arbitrary usage, proposes to a young mind a foretaste of what will be offered to him later on by law and ethics, those sciences of human conduct, and by all the systems wherein man has codified his instinctive experience.
As it was, we had but a foretaste and an earnest of that bliss which it was in our power to procure.
I should have stayed still long enough, for her warm breath played on my face, and gave me a foretaste of ambrosia.
And thus one after another of my people passes away without the fortification and the foretaste that the deathbeds of Christian, and Christiana, and Hopeful, and Mr.
Indeed, temporary classrooms are to the school construction industry what paper dresses are to the clothing industry--a foretaste of the future.
As a storm was gathering, they now encamped on the margin of the river, where they remained all the next day, sheltering themselves as well as they could from the rain and snow - a sharp foretaste of the impending winter.
He had discovered, however, what was pertinent to his purpose: that she'd been connected, though perhaps only tangentially, with one of those grand conspiracies or foretastes of Armageddon which seemed to have captivated all diplomatic sensibilities in the years preceding the Great War.
For the past several hours the old wizard had been experiencing strange and frightening moments, mental flashes and foretastes of thinly disguised malignant hatred and contempt for his great lord.