Hypertext Webster Gateway: "forerunner"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Forerunner
John the Baptist went before our Lord in this character (Mark
1:2, 3). Christ so called (Heb. 6:20) as entering before his
people into the holy place as their head and guide.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Forerunner \Fore*run"ner\, n.
1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of
others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a
prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even
Jesus. --Heb. vi. 20.
My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. --Dryden.
2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
forerunner
n 1: anything that precedes something similar in time;
"phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
[syn: {antecedent}]
2: a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
[syn: {precursor}]
3: an indication of the approach of something or someone [syn:
{harbinger}, {herald}, {precursor}]
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