Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A forerunning; a heralding; prognostication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A forerunning.
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- verb
forerun ,precede - noun archaic a
prediction , aprognostication
Etymologies
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From Latin praecursum, supine of praecurrō ("run before").
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Examples
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Investors have reached for near-term downside protection, which if accurate, precurse a further decline of 13. 9\% for the market.
FXstreet.com 2008
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I. i.121 (152,7) Was even the like precurse of fierce events] Not only such prodigies have been seen in Rome, but the elements have shewn our countrymen like forerunners and foretokens of violent events.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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