the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall > a time (2)
prevent1467
transitive. To act in anticipation of, or in preparation for (a future event or point of time, esp. a time fixed for some action); to act as if…
to run before ——1513
intransitive. To keep ahead of, to anticipate (a time, a subject, one's thoughts, etc.).