foredream

Etymology

From fore- + dream.

noun

  1. a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope“[…] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart.”

verb

  1. to dream beforehand, especially as a premonition“She had used the only means, and the strongest means, of bringing Gilbert back to France; she had foredreamt his coming, she had foreknown that from the first he would ask for Beatrix; […]”