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单词 foregoer
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foregoern.

Brit. /fəˈɡəʊə/, /(ˌ)fɔːˈɡəʊə/, U.S. /fərˈɡoʊər/, /fɔrˈɡoʊər/
Forms: Middle English–1500s forgoer, (Middle English forgoere, Middle English goar, 1500s foregoere), Middle English– foregoer.
Etymology: < fore- prefix + goer n.
1. A messenger sent before, a forerunner, a harbinger; spec. a purveyor. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first > as a harbinger or messenger
messengerc1230
foregoer1393
fourrier1481
fore-rider1513
fore-currour1548
usher1548
harbingera1550
vaunt-courier1561
van-courier1581
herald1597
usherer1598
outrunner1891
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplier of food or caterer
purveyor1340
victualler1377
caterc1400
purveyoressc1400
achatourc1405
acaterc1415
providerc1485
provenderc1530
meatsman1567
caterer1592
proveditor1592
viander1598
foregoer1601
meat-man1614
prog man1618
provedore1631
provisioner1633
meater1643
opsonator1656
sutler1710
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 198 Ac gile was forgoere to gyen al the puple, For to wisse hem the weye and with Mede a-byde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 13208 To helle bifore crist he [sc. John] ferd..Þerfore is he called forgoer.
1502 Caxton's Chron. Eng. kvj b/1 He was..The forgooer of Antecryst, the fulfyller of heresye.
1580 Order Prayer in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) 568 He sent Hornets and wild Beasts, as foregoers of his host.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. sig. N7v O Mercurie, foregoer to the euening.
1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §90. 53 Their shalbe a fore-goer in the kinges household.
1662 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words (ed. 2) Foregoers, Purveyours going before the King or Queen in progresse.
1745 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk 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.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > a pattern or model of conduct
bysenc950
ensample1297
mirrora1300
ensamplerc1374
examplea1382
foregoer1382
exemplara1393
essamplerie1393
forbyseninga1400
patternc1425
spectaclec1430
precedent1535
spectable1535
foregoinga1586
modela1586
copya1616
leading card1635
patron saint1803
fugleman1814
fore-mark1863
parable1894
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > [noun] > one who goes first
forerunnerOE
before-runnera1382
foregoer1382
foremanc1425
fore-rider1488
precursora1500
forewalker1529
precedent1599
precurrer1601
beginnerc1613
frontliner1895
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. iii. 3 Whanne ȝe seen the ark..folwe ȝe the forgoers.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 10 They made her in alle thynges a forgoar and ensample to them.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. ii. f. viii It is conuenient for them [sc. women]..to be folowers, and not foregoers.
1596 J. Davies Orchestra lviii. sig. B4v All the followers [sc. flying cranes] their heads doe lay On their forgoers backs.
1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith xii. 85 The promised Glory, and the future blessings that are its necessary Foregoers.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. i. 5 Each [reaper] casting leftwards his rich clearance on his foregoer's double track.
3. One that has gone before; a predecessor.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor
ancestorc1300
foreganger1340
before-goerc1384
antecessora1387
predecessora1387
oldersc1450
precessor1454
forn-goer1483
before-gangerc1520
Adam1553
foregoer1556
preventer1598
forerunnera1616
decessor1647
first-comer1690
precursor1792
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties ii. f. 99v He..in knowledge clerelie exceded all his foregoers.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 68v Two young men of the parish are yerely chosen by their last foregoers, to be Wardens.
1868 W. H. Dixon Spiritual Wives II. xi. 90 His foregoers had been settled in Massachusetts since the days of the Mayflower.
1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 348 The order in which each state of society has followed its foregoer.
4. Nautical. = foreganger n. 2a.
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1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 161 Before this hollow part, the Fore-goer is fasten'd or ty'd.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
1892 Daily News 8 June 5/3 We quickly bent on the line to the foregoer, clapped the harpoon into the gun.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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