Foresaw vs Foresay - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between foresaw and foresay

is that foresaw is simple past of foresee while foresay is to say beforehand; predict; foretell.

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(foresee)

To anticipate; to predict.

* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter

"I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."

* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3

A prudent man foreseeth the evil.

(obsolete) To provide.

* Francis Bacon

Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

To say beforehand; predict; foretell.

To decree; ordain; appoint.

Let ordinance Come as the gods foresay it — Shakespeare.