Forelive

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    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 […]"

Example

More examples

"[…] 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 […]"

Etymology

From fore- + live.

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