What does forelive mean?
Forelive means To live or come before; precede.
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To live or come before; precede.
[…] 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.
Use forelive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Forelive means To live or come before; precede.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] 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 […]
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