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foregoer|fɔəˈgəʊə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 forgoer, (4 forgoere, 5 goar, 6 foregoere), 5– foregoer.
[f. fore- prefix + goer.]
†1. A messenger sent before, a forerunner, a harbinger; spec. a purveyor. Obs.
c1340Cursor M. 13208 (Trin.) To helle bifore crist [Ion] ferd..Þerfore is he called forgoer. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iii. 198 Ac gile was forgoere to gyen al the puple, For to wisse hem the weye and with Mede a-byde. 1502Caxton's Chron. Eng. kvj b/1 He was..The forgooer of Antecryst, the fulfyller of heresye. 1580Ord. of Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 568 He sent Hornets and wild Beasts, as foregoers of his host. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 216 O Mercurie, foregoer to the euening. 1601F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edw. II §90 (1876) 53 Their shalbe a fore-goer in the kinges household. 1662Phillips, Foregoers, Purveyours going before the King or Queen in progresse. 1745F. Blomefield Norf. II. 605 There was one always at each (Leper) House called the Foregoer, who used to beg daily for them.
2. One who or that which goes in front or ‘leads the way’; a leader; hence, an example, pattern.
1382Wyclif Josh. iii. 3 Whanne ȝe seen the ark..folwe ȝe the forgoers. 1485Caxton St. Wenefr. 10 They made her in alle thynges a forgoar and ensample to them. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. ii. 11 It is conuenient for them [women]..to be folowers, and not foregoers. 1596Davies Orchestra 58 All the followers [flying cranes] their heads doe lay On their forgoers backs. 1658Baxter Saving Faith xii. 85 The promised Glory, and the future blessings that are its necessary Foregoers. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. II. i. Each [reaper] casting leftwards his rich clearance on his foregoer's double track.
3. One that has gone before; a predecessor.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices ii. (1558) 102 He..in knowledge clerely exceded all his foregoers. 1602Carew Cornwall (1769) 68 Two young men of the parish are yerely chosen by their last fore-goers, to be wardens. 1868Dixon Spiritual Wives II. xi. 90 His foregoers had been settled in Massachusetts since the days of the Mayflower. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 348 The order in which each state of society has followed its foregoer.
4. Naut. = foreganger 2 a.
1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 161 Before this hollow part, the Fore-goer is fasten'd or ty'd. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1892Daily News 8 June 5/3 We quickly bent on the line to the foregoer, clapped the harpoon into the gun. |