| 单词 | go before | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go before   to go before  1.  intransitive.  a.  To move or travel ahead or in advance. Cf. before-go vb. (a) at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3. Now literary and rare. ΚΠ OE    Wærferð tr.  Gregory Dialogues 		(Corpus Cambr.)	 		(1900)	  i. xii. 88  				Gað ge beforon; ic eow cume æfter. c1430    N. Love Mirror Blessed Life 		(Brasenose e.9)	 		(1908)	 289  				The Archaungel Mychael, prouoste of paradys, goynge bifore, tolde the blessid court of heuene that oure lorde Jesu was comynge. 1548    Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviiv  				The Erle of Warwicke..determined..to go before with part of the nauie. 1591    A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France viii. 491  				The King with part of his armie went before, with commaundement to the rest to follow after. 1638    A. Hodges tr.  Achilles Tatius Loves of Clitophon & Leucippe iv. 109  				By this meanes the old men going before with these emblemes of peace, might shrewd the armed men behind them. 1662    J. Davies tr.  A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors  iii. 128  				The Clark goes before carrying the Image of St. Iohn. a1713    T. Ellwood Hist. Life 		(1714)	 81  				Next morning John Rance and I set out, and when we were come to the End of the Town, we agreed, that he should go before, and knock at the great Gate. 1791    Edwy I.  v. 139  				A herald went before, and announced our approach. 1864    L. M. Alcott Moods xvi. 211  				Where is Adam? Has he gone before, or been inveigled into staying? 1995    U. A. Fanthorpe Safe as Houses 19  				A servant, a man beneath us, who washes our feet, Who goes before to try out the hard things first, Who opens gates so we can go easily through.  b.  Chiefly literary and poetic. To die (with the implicit notion of going to an afterlife in advance of a living person or people). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner			[verb (intransitive)]		 > die before to go before1553 predecease1681 1553    T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique  i. f. 39v  				As the other are gone before, either to heauen or elles to hell: so shall oure frendes and kinsfolke folowe after. 1591    L. Wright Pilgrimage to Paradise iv. 11  				All must follow the daunce of death. Many are gone before: the rest must followe after: when God doth call nature must obey. 1616    B. Jonson Epigrammes xxxiii, in  Wks. I. 777  				Thou art but gone before, Whither the world must follow. 1679    P. Henry Let. in  W. Bates Acct. Life & Death of Philip Henry 		(1698)	 x. 236  				Your Children are not lost, but gone before, a little before, whither you your selves are hastning after. 1688    J. Barker Poet. Recreations  i. 68  				My dearest Brother, who is gone before, Half way will meet me in the Air, or more. 1779    Lady's Mag. Jan. 46/2  				Then, weeping parents, give your sorrows o'er, Your children are not lost, but gone before. 1819    S. Rogers Human Life 61  				Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves—not dead—but gone before. 1832    J. F. Cooper Heidenmauer II. vii. 90  				Bethink thee of those who have gone before. Hast already forgotten thy visit to the tombs of thy family? 1999    M. B. Pratt Walking back up Depot St. 7  				Men and women remembered another kind of night Spent on their knees beside their mother's graves, The air thick with cries and the spirits of those Who had gone before.  2.  intransitive. To precede in time or order. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go first or in front			[verb (intransitive)]		 foregoc825 to go beforec1225 preamble1402 to beat a path1589 to lead the waya1593 preambulate1598 anteambulate1623 antecede1628 to lead the van1697 to take the (or a) lead1768 lead1798 to lead off1806 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before			[verb (intransitive)]		 precede?a1425 prevent1542 to go before1585 anticipate1588 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order			[verb (intransitive)]		 > precede in order to go before1585 c1225						 (?c1200)						    Sawles Warde 		(Royal)	 		(1938)	 40 (MED)  				Þet wit ga euer biuore ant teache wil efter him to al þet he dihteð & demeð to donne. a1325						 (c1250)						    Gen. & Exod. 		(1968)	 83 (MED)  				Euere gede ðe dai biforn, Siðen ðat newe werld was boren. c1410    tr.  R. Higden Polychron. 		(St. John's Cambr.)	 		(1879)	 VII. 193  				Of whos ende and passing forþ [L. exitu] it is expressid in þinges þat gooþ bifore. 1528    W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clv 		(heading)	  				A compendious rehersall of that which goeth before. 1585    Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 188  				We learne in the text that goeth before in this chapter, that [etc.]. a1616    W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors 		(1623)	  i. i. 95  				Gather the sequell by that went before .       View more context for this quotation a1656    J. Ussher 18 Serm. 		(1660)	 119  				'Tis not the last blow that kills the man, but every blow that goes before, makes way unto it. 1783    H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xx. 425  				This last sentence..is no more than an unnecessary recapitulation of what had gone before. a1817    J. Austen Persuasion 		(1818)	 III. x. 215  				This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before .       View more context for this quotation a1866    W. Lindsay Lect. on Epist. Hebrews 		(1867)	 II. xiii. 323  				The connection of this verse with what goes before has been differently estimated. 1910    E. C. Foster Starting to Teach xii. 112  				The point of contact for the new lesson will frequently be a review of the lesson which went before. 1943    Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 37 17  				Let us..in the hard years that lie ahead, outmaster the masters of our science who have gone before. 2010    Vanity Fair Aug. 161/3  				Postmodernism..seems in hindsight like a frail fig leaf attempting to cover up the sins of what had gone before. to go before ——   to go before ——  1.  intransitive. To precede in time or order; to go ahead or in advance of (literal and figurative). Cf. before-go vb. (a) at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ 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 OE    Old Eng. Martyrol. 		(Corpus Cambr. 196)	 24 June 		(2013)	 124  				Iohannes wæs se engel se ðe eode beforan Gode. OE    Wærferð tr.  Gregory Dialogues 		(Corpus Cambr.)	 		(1900)	  i. iv. 33  				Symble þa gyfa gaþ nu beforan ælcum weorce, þeah þe þa gyfa eac of þam æfterfiligendan weorce geweaxen & gemærsien. c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon Brut 		(Calig.)	 		(1963)	 l. 12205  				Seint Dubris eoden [c1300 Otho ȝeode] biuoren..þe ærche-biscop of Lundene eode an his riht honden. a1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(1))	 		(1850)	 Ecclus. i. 3  				The wisdam of God goende beforn alle thingus [L. sapientiam Dei praecedentem], who enserchede? a1425    Daily Work 		(Arun.)	 in  C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers 		(1895)	 I. 134  				Goddis grace sterand gase bifore gode wille: & steres it til do þe gode, & leue þe ille. ?1521    J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. C.iv  				The workes yt gothe before faythe. 1629    H. Burton Babel No Bethel 6  				The Councell..surpasseth..all that went before it. 1659    W. Hicks Ἀποκάλυψις Ἀποκάλυψεως sig. b  				Many that went before me on this Theme, did excel in true Piety, Learning, and Parts. 1731    J. Lewis Hist. Eng. Transl. of Bible in  New Test. ii. 31  				So the Reader might have a perfect Notation of this Edition, and wherin it differed from the Editions which went before it. 1780    T. Bell Standard of Spirit 366  				The learned and judicious Boston, who in the study of the Hebrew accentuation, far outstripped all who went before him. 1821    Trial at Large of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth II. 184  				What was his business to do on that journey, going before her royal highness? To order horses, and to pay for the horses. 1849    Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 81/2  				Pity 'tis these should pay for the bad men who have gone before them. a1856    W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics 		(1860)	 III. xv. 277  				The other two [propositions], as naturally going before the conclusion, they have styled the premises. 1910    Encycl. Brit. I. 150/2  				At the church seven regionary acolytes with candles went before him in the procession to the altar. 1999    C. S. Keener Comm. Gospel of Matthew 346  				They prided themselves on their knowledge of traditional interpretations and sayings of the wise who had gone before them.  2.  intransitive. To take precedence over, surpass in rank or importance. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > 			[verb (transitive)]		 to go before ——OE overlightlOE preferc1395 precede1485 precess1529 to take the wall (of a person)?1562 outshine1605 to have the place1659 to take the road of1670 rank1841 OE    Blickling Homilies 167  				Sanctus Iohannes..gæþ beforan eallum oþrum witgan, & ealra oþerra heahfædera mægen he oferstigeþ on þæm apostolican gewealde. c1175    Ormulum 		(Burchfield transcript)	 l. 13212  				To gan biforenn alde menn, Inn alle gode þæwess. ?c1400						 (c1380)						    G. Chaucer tr.  Boethius De Consol. Philos. 		(BL Add. 10340)	 		(1868)	  iii. pr. viii. l. 2212  				Yif þou coueitest by honour to gon by-fore oþer folk þou shalt defoule þi self by humblesse of axing. 1533    tr.  Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani xv. sig. O.ijv  				Thynke bearing of roume or rule to be this, not to excell & go before other men in habundaunce of rychesse, but to profyte al men as moche as is possyble. a1616    W. Shakespeare Cymbeline 		(1623)	  i. iv. 70  				If she went before others..I haue seene as that Diamond of yours out-lusters many I haue beheld, I could not beleeue she excelled  many.       View more context for this quotation 1625    J. Robinson Observ. x. 83  				Reason is that wherein man goes before all other earthly creatures. 1739    J. Gill Law establish'd by Gospel 37  				Such as are believers in Christ, ought..to be careful..to go before others in good works. 1840    Ann. Nat. Hist. 4 396  				In the natural sciences facts go before all things. 1893    F. Marion Crawford Don Orsino xix. 288  				His friendship for the old count went before other considerations. 1906    A. MacLaren Expos. Holy Script. Deuteronomy 402  				The deepest desire of a truly religious soul is for the felt nearness of God. That goes before all other blessings. 1999    B. C. Lategan in  I. R. Kitzberger Personal Voice in Biblical Interpr. ix. 134  				The unity in Christ goes before all other loyalties. < as lemmas  | 
	
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