单词 | fore-run |
释义 | fore-runv. 1. intransitive. To run on in front. Old English only. ΚΠ c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 4 Se oðer leorning-cniht for-arn [c950 Lindisf. forearn] petrus forne. 2. transitive. To outrun, outstrip. Obsolete exc. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > gain (ground) upon > catch up or overtake > outstrip > by running of-runOE overruna1425 outrunc1460 fore-run1513 to have (also get) the heels of1649 to have the legs of (also on)1861 to give a stone and a beating to1885 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. vi. 61 That thai forryn and gois befor alway Zephirus and Nothus. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. v. xi. f. 61/2 Gyf ye haris had forrun the hundis. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 122 Forerun thy peers. 1879 R. W. Church Spenser v. 119 Even genius..cannot forerun the limitations of its day. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go in front of [verb (transitive)] foregoc900 precedec1475 preventa1500 fore-ride1570 fore-run1570 usher1599 huisher1606 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order to go before ——OE precedea1552 fore-run1570 prevene1596 frontal1652 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piv/1 To Forerunne, præcurrere. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 173 They often compassing the sepulcher in a ioynt procession, are fore-run and followed by the people. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 7 Chriscrosse fore-runs the Alphabet of loue. 1708 G. Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 335 And thou, my Child John, shalt fore-tell and immediately fore-run this Saviour. 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little i. iv. 38 Little Pompey..with three Footmen fore-running his Equipage,..set out in Triumph. 4. To be the precursor of (a future event, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] forecomea1300 precede?a1425 fore-run1590 usher1607 eve1638 to usher in1641 surmounta1647 antevene1655 antedate1664 antecedea1676 anticipate1855 precourse1888 predate1889 precursea1892 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > prefigure [verb (transitive)] forecomea1300 to say beforec1384 signifyc1384 pretendc1425 prefigurec1429 preostendc1429 prefigurate1530 prefigurate1530 adumbrate1537 promise1556 premonstrate1562 foresignify1565 presignify1570 shadow1574 foreshadow1577 presage1583 fore-run1590 presign1590 fore-read1591 figure1595 type forth, out1596 fore-point1601 foreshow1601 prophesy1608 foretella1616 foretypea1618 forebode1656 harbingera1657 pretypify1658 pretype1659 forespeak1667 to figure out1721 forecast1883 favour1887 precourse1888 precursea1892 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. C4 Lightning, that beawtifies the Heauen for a blaze but foreruns stormes and thunder. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iv. 15 These signes forerunne the death or fall of Kings. View more context for this quotation 1652 C. Cotterell tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra (1676) v. ii. 487 This felicity was to fore-run the last I now can hope for. a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 219 A Star..which Eastern Gentiles guess'd was to forerun The wish'd-for Dawn of the Eternal Sun. 1768 Med. Trans. (Royal Coll. of Physicians) 1 434 The symptoms, which forerun the chicken-pox. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 231 The cold wind that foreruns the morn. 5. To anticipate, forestall. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > anticipate, forecast [verb (transitive)] to cast dangerc1449 forecasta1513 preventa1533 foredeem1542 premeditate1566 foretake1588 fore-run1591 foreprise1597 to lay one's account with (also on, for)1606 foreguess1640 prospect1652 precalculate1840 pre-empt1928 second-guess1941 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall before-takea1382 preventc1425 devance1485 prevenea1500 lurch1530 to take before the bounda1556 to be aforehand with1570 to be beforehand with1574 to meet halfwaya1586 preoccupate1588 forestall1589 fore-run1591 surprise1591 antedate1595 foreprise1597 preoccupy1607 preoccupy1638 pre-act1655 anticipatea1682 obviate1712 to head off1841 beat1847 to beat out1893 pre-empt1957 1591 W. Raleigh Rep. Fight Iles of Açores sig. A3 By anticipating and forerunning false reports. 1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 54 Our Bodies but forerun The spirits duty. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Mrs. Kemble's Readings Shakespeare The great poet who foreruns the ages, Anticipating all that shall be said! Derivatives ˈforeˌrunning n. and adj. ΚΠ 1565 M. Harding Let. to Jewel in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. App. xxx. 72 Your forerunning sermon. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Advantcourement, forerunning. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 80 The diabolical forerunning libells. 1690 W. Penn Brief Acct. Rise Quakers (1834) 50 The consummation of the legal, and fore running of the Gospel times. 1818 S. E. Pierce Bk. Psalms II. 460 Sorrows and griefs, forerunning figures of what would befall Messiah. 1872 H. W. Longfellow Div. Trag. Introitus 53 The sublime fore running of their time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1000 |
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