FromMiddle Englishforseen,forsen, fromOld Englishforsēon(“to look down upon, despise”), equivalent tofor- +‎see. CompareOld Saxonfarsehan,Old High Germanfarsehan (Middle High Germanversehen).

forsee (third-person singular simple presentforsees,present participleforseeing,simple pastforsaw,past participleforseen)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) Toneglect;overlook;disregard;despise.
   • 1882, Victor Roy,A Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins:

     Could Iforsee the sunken rocks of life?

2. Alternative spelling offoresee.
   • 1841, Gordon,History of Scots Affairs, from 1637 - 1641 (quote from1638):

     The reasone why the Commissioner did so muche presse the reading of the declinator was, because heforsaw that they meant to putt him to a dilemma which still should bring ane inconvenience along with it [...]

3. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) Tooversee;superintend;direct.

• foresee

• John A. Simpson andEdmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “forsee”, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford:Clarendon Press,→ISBN.
• Wright,The English Dialect Dictionary, Forsee.

• Forees,Froese

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