forelive

forelive verb: to live or come before; precede.

Verb

forelive (third-person singular simple present forelives, present participle foreliving, simple past and past participle forelived)

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 […]1806, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal
- 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, […]1876, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems of Places Oceana 1 V

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, […]1897, Elwin Vyne, Gather'd Fragments:
Patterson, the guiding spirit of the many fruitless expeditions which were launched with such high hopes, forelived his time.1912, Bulletin of the Pan American Union, volume 34:

third-person singular present	forelives
present participle	foreliving
past participle	forelived
past	forelived

From fore- + live.

What does forelive mean?: Forelive means to live or come before; precede.
How do you use forelive in a sentence?: 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, […]
What part of speech is forelive?: Forelive is a verb.
What is the past tense of forelive?: The past tense of forelive is forelived.

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