FORERUN • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Forerun

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

verb

Forerun v. t. (past foreran; past part. forerun; pres. part. forerunning)

To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).

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."

See images of 'Forerun'

Etymology of 'Forerun'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Forerun" Quotes from Famous Books

... time Mr. Middleton had been very agreeably employed in a corner of the room, for the young lady in an access of terror had thrown herself into his arms and there she had remained during the whole affrighting performance. To forerun any possible apprehension that he was going to extricate himself and leave her, he held her with considerable firmness, whispering encouragement into her ear the while. Preparing to accompany her home, he had almost left the room before he bethought him of the copper ...

— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis

... application, that he still flatters himself we may have a rehearsal of the music in Orchard Street to-morrow se'nnight. Every hour's delay is a material injury both to the opera and the theatre, so that if you can come and relieve us from this perplexity, the return of the post must only forerun your arrival; or (what will make us much happier) might it not bring you? I shall say nothing at present about the lady 'with the soft look and manner,' because I am full of more than hopes of seeing you. For the same reason I shall delay ...

— Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan V1 • Thomas Moore