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Intended beforehand; premeditated. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mentioned before; already cited; aforementioned. Addison.

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

To name or mention before. Shak.

Named before; aforenamed.

Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning. [R.] Rymer.

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.

To prize or rate beforehand. [Obs.] Hooker.

Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.

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

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

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

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.

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

To seize beforehand.

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.