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Foresee vs Stipulate - What's the difference?

foresee | stipulate |

As verbs the difference between foresee and stipulate

is that foresee is to anticipate; to predict while stipulate is to require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

As an adjective stipulate is

(botany) having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.

foresee

English

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.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs

    stipulate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (stipulat)
  • To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
  • To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
  • To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
  • Derived terms
    * stipulated * stipulation * stipulative

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
  • Antonyms
    * exstipulate