| 释义 |
† foreleader Obs.
Also 4, 6 for-.
[f. fore- prefix + leader.]
One who leads the advance; a chief or principal leader.
a1300Cursor M. 14410 (Cott.) Moyses was þair for-leder. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale 18 Christe is the firste frutis and fore leader of them that sleap. 1576Gascoigne Diet for Drunkards (1789) 17 Would God that we learned not, by the foreleaders before named, to charge and coniure each other vnto the pledge. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. v. §1 Hengist for valour, policie, and strength, was the fore⁓leader. 1648Herrick Hesper. (1869) 326 Know, for truth, I meant You a fore-leader in this testament. 1876Whitby Gloss., Fooreleader, chief captain. |