单词 | foregoer |
释义 | foregoern.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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