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fore-run, v.|fɔəˈrʌn|
[f. fore- + run.]
1. intr. To run on in front. OE. only.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John xx. 4 Se oðer leorning-cniht for-arn [c 950 Lindisf. forearn] petrus forne.
2. trans. To outrun, outstrip. Obs. exc. fig.
1513Douglas æneis xii. vi. 61 That thai forryn and gois befor alway Zephirus and Nothus. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 186 Gif the haris had forrun the hundis. 1842Tennyson 2 Voices 88 Forerun thy peers. 1879Church Spenser v. 119 Even genius..cannot forerun the limitations of its day.
†3. To run in front of; hence, to act as harbinger of (a person). Also transf. to precede. Obs.
1570Levins Manip. 188 To forerunne, præcurrere. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 173 They often compassing the sepulcher in a ioynt procession, are fore-run and followed by the people. 1621Quarles Argalus & P. (1678) 6 Chris-cross foreruns the Alphabet of love. 1708Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 335 And thou, my Child John, shalt fore-tell and immediately fore-run this Saviour. 1750Coventry Pompey Litt. (1752) 36 Thus our hero, with three footmen fore⁓running his equipage, set out in triumph.
absol.a1643W. Cartwright Siege v. iii, To forerun And lead the way t' Elysium [is] but a duty She would not thank me for.
4. To be the precursor of (a future event, etc.).
1590Greene Never too late (1600) 71 Lightning, that beautifies the heauen for a blaze, but foreruns stormes and thunder. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. iv. 15 These signes fore-run the death of Kings. 1652Sir C. Cotterell Cassandra v. ii. (1676) 487 This felicity was to fore-run the last I now can hope for. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 219 A Star..which Eastern Gentiles guess'd was to forerun The wish'd-for Dawn of the Eternal Sun. 1834Good Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 359 The symptoms that forerun the chicken-pox. 1859Tennyson Idylls, Guinevere 131 The cold wind that foreruns the morn.
5. To anticipate, forestall.
1591Raleigh Last Fight Rev. 15 By anticipating and forerunning false reports. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint., Rules & Lessons (1858) 73 Our Bodies but forerun The Spirit's duty. 1849Longfellow Mrs. Kemble's Readings Shaks., The great poet who foreruns the ages, Anticipating all that shall be said!
Hence ˈforeˌrunning vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1565Harding Let. to Jewel in Strype Ann. Ref I. App. xxx. 72 Your forerunning sermon. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Advantcourement, forerunning. 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. (1847) 449/2 The diabolical forerunning Libels. 1690Penn Rise & Progr. Quakers (1834) 50 The consummation of the legal, and fore running of the Gospel times. 1818S. E. Pierce Bk. Psalms II. 460 Sorrows and griefs, forerunning figures of what would befall Messiah. 1872Longfellow Div. Trag. Introitus 53 The sublime fore running of their time. |