What does forerule mean?
Forerule means (transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time.
She would be superstitious, and believe in a fore-ruling Destiny, and in guardian spirits that stood invisibly beside us, and rejoiced to see the happy consummation of their long-protracted endeavors.
[…] a spirit of infinite beauty and fitness and harmony is breathed through the discordant, contrary elements, though we may not see it here, and the universe pursues its foreruled inevitable way to the solemn immortal music of Love and Power and Justice, which are eternal and divine.
Prevision is of man's prerogatives That one whereby, with likeliest warranty, He claims companionship with Godhead's self, With what creates and forerules wheeling worlds.
It would have been unjust to deify Impotent instruments fore-ruled to course — Beings who could of self no good invite, Even might creation thus wake negatives.
Foreruling sure Man's fateful passages!
England the turbulent, foreruled by none, Strong to do right, England the jubilant, Christendom's sun, Full be thy light!
Alas, without Death and the Fates that forerule him I reckoned, […]
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Forerule means (transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time.
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She would be superstitious, and believe in a fore-ruling Destiny, and in guardian spirits that stood invisibly beside us, and rejoiced to see the happy consummation of their long-protracted endeavors.
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