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English
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Etymology
From fore- + rule.
Verb
forerule (third-person singular simple present forerules, present participle foreruling, simple past and past participle foreruled)
- (transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time
1843, The Pupil of Raphael, volumes 1-2, page 37: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.
1876, Chambers's Journal, volume 53, page 627:[…] 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.
1883, George Henry Calvert, Brangonar: A Tragedy, page 63: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.
1889, Michael Doyle, Cause, page 11: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.
1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight, volume 1, page 8:Foreruling sure Man's fateful passages!
1897, Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Baron Latymer, King Arthur:England the turbulent, foreruled by none,
Strong to do right,
England the jubilant, Christendom's sun,
Full be thy light!
1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence, page 240:Alas, without Death and the Fates that forerule him I reckoned, […]