Hypertext Webster Gateway: "forerun"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Forerun \Fore*run"\, v. t.
1. To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something
following).
2. To come before as an earnest of something to follow; to
introduce as a harbinger; to announce.
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
--Shak.
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