forecome

present singular third person forecomes · participle present forecoming · past forecame

1. To come before and influence, especially to precede and prevent.

   But to forecome this shortcoming the measurement and mapping techniques presented could be combined with other indicators.

   1998, Clara Eugenia Garcia, Luis Sanz Menéndez, Management and Technology - Volume 5, page 97

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   It is in vain that ye rise before the dawn to go forth to your labours and to your business, unless I, the Sun of Righteousness, forecome your efforts with My light.

   1869, Paradise of the Christian soul, page 9

   ...accordingly, there will be only two hundred remaining, which I desire him may be forwarded to you with the utmost dispatch, and I hope they will be with you time enough, to forecome any inconveniences the shameful desertion of those, that are gone off, might have put you to.

   1869, Nova Scotia Archives, page 481

   However, to simplify matters and forecome continual amendments, many agreements now specify that the bargaining unit will encompass all employee classes where the union has significant representivity.

   1996, Sonia Bendix, Industrial relations in the new South Africa, page 291