Fore"wit` (?), n.
1.
A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.
[Obs.]
Nor that the forewits, that would draw the rest unto their liking, always like the best.
B. Jonson.
2.
Foresight; prudence.
Let this forewit guide thy thought.
Southwell.
© Webster 1913.