Verb

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.

Verb

(calculat)

(mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

(mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.

(intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.

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To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.

* (William Shakespeare)

A cunning man did calculate my birth.

To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.

* Archbishop Tillotson

[Religion] is calculated for our benefit.