forelive

present singular third person forelives · participle present foreliving · participle past forelived · past forelived

1. To live or come before; precede

   Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.

   1912, Bulletin of the Pan American Union, volume 34

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   […] Or if I seek the visitation, then He fills me, and my foul is carried on, And then do I forelive the race of men, So that the things that will be, are to me […]

   1806, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal

   Considering in how small a room do lie, And yet lie safe (as fresh as if alive), All those great worthies of antiquity, Which long forelived thee, and shall long survive; Who stronger tombs found for eternity, […]

   1876, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems of Places Oceana 1 V

   When the wind is moaning a dreary dirge, And the curtain of night is blackly drawn; When the swirling breakers higher surge, And never a star forelives the dawn,— 'Tis then that the Lighthouse Man keeps watch, And stands by his lamps like a hero true […]

   1883, Truth, volume 13

   But where, in those scant days we task'd ourselves,— As we were wont in that anterior time,— To forelive future being to excess, To scale youth's daring, sublimated heights, […]

   1897, Elwin Vyne, Gather'd Fragments