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Webster 1913 Edition
Forerun
Fore-run′
,Verb.
T.
1.
To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
2.
To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
These signs
forerun
the death or fall of kings. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Forerun
FORERUN'
, v.t.1.
To advance before; to come before as an earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger.Heaviness foreruns the good event.
2.
To precede; to have the start of.Definition 2024
forerun
forerun
English
Verb
forerun (third-person singular simple present foreruns, present participle forerunning, simple past foreran, past participle forerun)
- To run in front.
- To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, [II], Act II, Scene 4,
- These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
- 1859-85, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "[]", Idylls of the King, Chicago: W.B. Conkey, 1900, pp. 325-6,
- And in herself she moan'd, 'Too late, too late!' / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak'd, […]
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 5,
- Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, [II], Act II, Scene 4,