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单词 to go before
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to go before
to go before
1. intransitive.
a. To move or travel ahead or in advance. Cf. before-go vb. (a) at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3. Now literary and rare.
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OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. xii. 88 Gað ge beforon; ic eow cume æfter.
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 289 The Archaungel Mychael, prouoste of paradys, goynge bifore, tolde the blessid court of heuene that oure lorde Jesu was comynge.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviiv The Erle of Warwicke..determined..to go before with part of the nauie.
1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France viii. 491 The King with part of his armie went before, with commaundement to the rest to follow after.
1638 A. Hodges tr. Achilles Tatius Loves of Clitophon & Leucippe iv. 109 By this meanes the old men going before with these emblemes of peace, might shrewd the armed men behind them.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors iii. 128 The Clark goes before carrying the Image of St. Iohn.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 81 Next morning John Rance and I set out, and when we were come to the End of the Town, we agreed, that he should go before, and knock at the great Gate.
1791 Edwy I. v. 139 A herald went before, and announced our approach.
1864 L. M. Alcott Moods xvi. 211 Where is Adam? Has he gone before, or been inveigled into staying?
1995 U. A. Fanthorpe Safe as Houses 19 A servant, a man beneath us, who washes our feet, Who goes before to try out the hard things first, Who opens gates so we can go easily through.
b. Chiefly literary and poetic. To die (with the implicit notion of going to an afterlife in advance of a living person or people). Now rare.
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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die before
to go before1553
predecease1681
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique i. f. 39v As the other are gone before, either to heauen or elles to hell: so shall oure frendes and kinsfolke folowe after.
1591 L. Wright Pilgrimage to Paradise iv. 11 All must follow the daunce of death. Many are gone before: the rest must followe after: when God doth call nature must obey.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xxxiii, in Wks. I. 777 Thou art but gone before, Whither the world must follow.
1679 P. Henry Let. in W. Bates Acct. Life & Death of Philip Henry (1698) x. 236 Your Children are not lost, but gone before, a little before, whither you your selves are hastning after.
1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 68 My dearest Brother, who is gone before, Half way will meet me in the Air, or more.
1779 Lady's Mag. Jan. 46/2 Then, weeping parents, give your sorrows o'er, Your children are not lost, but gone before.
1819 S. Rogers Human Life 61 Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves—not dead—but gone before.
1832 J. F. Cooper Heidenmauer II. vii. 90 Bethink thee of those who have gone before. Hast already forgotten thy visit to the tombs of thy family?
1999 M. B. Pratt Walking back up Depot St. 7 Men and women remembered another kind of night Spent on their knees beside their mother's graves, The air thick with cries and the spirits of those Who had gone before.
2. intransitive. To precede in time or order.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > going first or in front > go first or in front [verb (intransitive)]
foregoc825
to go beforec1225
preamble1402
to beat a path1589
to lead the waya1593
preambulate1598
anteambulate1623
antecede1628
to lead the van1697
to take the (or a) lead1768
lead1798
to lead off1806
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before [verb (intransitive)]
precede?a1425
prevent1542
to go before1585
anticipate1588
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (intransitive)] > precede in order
to go before1585
c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Royal) (1938) 40 (MED) Þet wit ga euer biuore ant teache wil efter him to al þet he dihteð & demeð to donne.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) 83 (MED) Euere gede ðe dai biforn, Siðen ðat newe werld was boren.
c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 193 Of whos ende and passing forþ [L. exitu] it is expressid in þinges þat gooþ bifore.
1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. clv (heading) A compendious rehersall of that which goeth before.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xii. 188 We learne in the text that goeth before in this chapter, that [etc.].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 95 Gather the sequell by that went before . View more context for this quotation
a1656 J. Ussher 18 Serm. (1660) 119 'Tis not the last blow that kills the man, but every blow that goes before, makes way unto it.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xx. 425 This last sentence..is no more than an unnecessary recapitulation of what had gone before.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. x. 215 This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before . View more context for this quotation
a1866 W. Lindsay Lect. on Epist. Hebrews (1867) II. xiii. 323 The connection of this verse with what goes before has been differently estimated.
1910 E. C. Foster Starting to Teach xii. 112 The point of contact for the new lesson will frequently be a review of the lesson which went before.
1943 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 37 17 Let us..in the hard years that lie ahead, outmaster the masters of our science who have gone before.
2010 Vanity Fair Aug. 161/3 Postmodernism..seems in hindsight like a frail fig leaf attempting to cover up the sins of what had gone before.
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to go before ——
1. intransitive. To precede in time or order; to go ahead or in advance of (literal and figurative). Cf. before-go vb. (a) at before adv., prep., conj., and n. Compounds 3.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > precede or follow in order [verb (transitive)] > precede in order
to go before ——OE
precedea1552
fore-run1570
prevene1596
frontal1652
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 196) 24 June (2013) 124 Iohannes wæs se engel se ðe eode beforan Gode.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. iv. 33 Symble þa gyfa gaþ nu beforan ælcum weorce, þeah þe þa gyfa eac of þam æfterfiligendan weorce geweaxen & gemærsien.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 12205 Seint Dubris eoden [c1300 Otho ȝeode] biuoren..þe ærche-biscop of Lundene eode an his riht honden.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. i. 3 The wisdam of God goende beforn alle thingus [L. sapientiam Dei praecedentem], who enserchede?
a1425 Daily Work (Arun.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 134 Goddis grace sterand gase bifore gode wille: & steres it til do þe gode, & leue þe ille.
?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. C.iv The workes yt gothe before faythe.
1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel 6 The Councell..surpasseth..all that went before it.
1659 W. Hicks Ἀποκάλυψις Ἀποκάλυψεως sig. b Many that went before me on this Theme, did excel in true Piety, Learning, and Parts.
1731 J. Lewis Hist. Eng. Transl. of Bible in New Test. ii. 31 So the Reader might have a perfect Notation of this Edition, and wherin it differed from the Editions which went before it.
1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit 366 The learned and judicious Boston, who in the study of the Hebrew accentuation, far outstripped all who went before him.
1821 Trial at Large of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth II. 184 What was his business to do on that journey, going before her royal highness? To order horses, and to pay for the horses.
1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 81/2 Pity 'tis these should pay for the bad men who have gone before them.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xv. 277 The other two [propositions], as naturally going before the conclusion, they have styled the premises.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 150/2 At the church seven regionary acolytes with candles went before him in the procession to the altar.
1999 C. S. Keener Comm. Gospel of Matthew 346 They prided themselves on their knowledge of traditional interpretations and sayings of the wise who had gone before them.
2. intransitive. To take precedence over, surpass in rank or importance.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (transitive)]
to go before ——OE
overlightlOE
preferc1395
precede1485
precess1529
to take the wall (of a person)?1562
outshine1605
to have the place1659
to take the road of1670
rank1841
OE Blickling Homilies 167 Sanctus Iohannes..gæþ beforan eallum oþrum witgan, & ealra oþerra heahfædera mægen he oferstigeþ on þæm apostolican gewealde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13212 To gan biforenn alde menn, Inn alle gode þæwess.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iii. pr. viii. l. 2212 Yif þou coueitest by honour to gon by-fore oþer folk þou shalt defoule þi self by humblesse of axing.
1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani xv. sig. O.ijv Thynke bearing of roume or rule to be this, not to excell & go before other men in habundaunce of rychesse, but to profyte al men as moche as is possyble.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iv. 70 If she went before others..I haue seene as that Diamond of yours out-lusters many I haue beheld, I could not beleeue she excelled many. View more context for this quotation
1625 J. Robinson Observ. x. 83 Reason is that wherein man goes before all other earthly creatures.
1739 J. Gill Law establish'd by Gospel 37 Such as are believers in Christ, ought..to be careful..to go before others in good works.
1840 Ann. Nat. Hist. 4 396 In the natural sciences facts go before all things.
1893 F. Marion Crawford Don Orsino xix. 288 His friendship for the old count went before other considerations.
1906 A. MacLaren Expos. Holy Script. Deuteronomy 402 The deepest desire of a truly religious soul is for the felt nearness of God. That goes before all other blessings.
1999 B. C. Lategan in I. R. Kitzberger Personal Voice in Biblical Interpr. ix. 134 The unity in Christ goes before all other loyalties.
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