v. [f. FORE- pref. + LIVE v.] trans. To live before another.
1599. Daniel, Musophilus, lxii.
| 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. |
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1812), II. 530. They who fore-liv’d and preceded us may be called our Ancestors.
1805. Southey, Madoc, II. iii.
| And then do I forelive the race of men, | |
| So that the things that will be, are to me | |
| Past. |
b. intr. (or absol.)
1839. Bailey, Festus, xix. (1848), 208.
| And some believed, despite all threats of fire, | |
| Here and hereafter, that the soul ere yet | |
| Clad with the body had forelived in Heaven | |
| A holy creature. |
