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forerule en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + rule.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time
   • […] a spirit of infinite beauty and fitness and harmony is breathed through the discordant, contrary elements, though we may not see it here, and the universe pursues its foreruled inevitable way to the solemn immortal music of Love and Power and Justice, which are eternal and divine. 1876, Chambers's Journal, volume 53, page 627:
   • It would have been unjust to deify Impotent instruments fore-ruled to course — Beings who could of self no good invite, Even might creation thus wake negatives. 1889, Michael Doyle, Cause, page 11:
   • Foreruling sure Man's fateful passages! 1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight, volume 1, page 8:
   • She would be superstitious, and believe in a fore-ruling Destiny, and in guardian spirits that stood invisibly beside us, and rejoiced to see the happy consummation of their long-protracted endeavors. 1843, The Pupil of Raphael, volumes 1-2, page 37:
   • Alas, without Death and the Fates that forerule him I reckoned, […] 1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence, page 240:
   • Prevision is of man's prerogatives That one whereby, with likeliest warranty, He claims companionship with Godhead's self, With what creates and forerules wheeling worlds. 1883, George Henry Calvert, Brangonar: A Tragedy, page 63:
   • England the turbulent, foreruled by none, Strong to do right, England the jubilant, Christendom's sun, Full be thy light! 1897, Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Baron Latymer, King Arthur:

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