forerun

Verb

1. To run in front.
   • Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page. - 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 131:
2. To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
   • These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. - 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
   • And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […] - 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls...
   • Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them. - 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter V.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published...