Forelive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Forelive is a verb meaning To live or come before; precede.
Meaning
To live or come before; precede.
Example Sentences
Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.
[…] 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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Word Forms
- forelives
- foreliving
- forelived
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prelive, forego, forecome, forerun, precede, antecede.
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