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Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay.

imp. of Forerun.

The first rank; the front.

To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

To tell beforehand; to signify by tokens; to predestine. [Obs.] Spenser.

Named or recited before. "The forerecited practices." Shak.

Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.

Ready; directly forward; going before. [Obs.] "A foreright wind." Chapman.

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

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.

Mentioned before; aforesaid.

The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

To foretell. [Obs.] Her danger nigh that sudden change foresaid. Fairfax.

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3.

case that; on condition that. [Obs.] One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot.

One who foresees or foreknows.

To seize beforehand.

To shadow or typi Dryden.

See Foreshow.

The fore part of a ship. [Obs.]