Meaning of forelive | Babel Free

Definitions

To live or come before; precede

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 […]”

“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, […]”

“When the wind is moaning a dreary dirge, And the curtain of night is blackly drawn; When the swirling breakers higher surge, And never a star forelives the dawn,— 'Tis then that the Lighthouse Man keeps watch, And stands by his lamps like a hero true […]”

“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, […]”

“Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.”

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