Word Finder - forerunner

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A runner at the front or ahead.

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By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.

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A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.

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A forebear, an ancestor, a predecessor.

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Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.

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A postage stamp used in the time before a region or area issues stamps of its own.

But this alliance, like its forerunner, was of very short duration.

In this way every good thing has its evil forerunner.

St. John the Baptist is the Lord's immediate precursor or forerunner, sent to prepare his way.

It is used chiefly in poetry and literature for one who announces the immediate approach of something, a forerunner.

Quickly becoming a forerunner on the Canadian comedy scene.

Here you had the forerunner of the Diesel Multiple Unit that was to prove so effective in later years.

Ilyenkov thought him to be the direct forerunner of Marxism.

It was, however, not a ridge climb but a great forerunner of the Slab and Wall Period.

Advent 3 is " John the Baptist Day " when we consider the forerunner to the long-expected Messiah.

The immediate forerunner of today's transistor portable was the Personal Portable of the late 1940's and early 1950's.

Hugh Grant in Four Weddings and a Funeral is a clear forerunner of Bill's character.

Fayol, however, was an obvious forerunner for those strategy theorists who take a prescriptive view of the strategy process.

Written in 1893, it was a forerunner of German Naturalism, and exhibits the socialist leanings of its author.

Philip King was the forerunner of the Whitehall farces and ultimately paved the way for such well loved British comedy as Dad's Army.

On August 14, 1977, the Chinese Kung Fu teahouse, the forerunner of Taiwan's modern teahouses, was estab-lished.

On the other hand, the late Tertiary Dryornis is a member of the Cathartae or American vultures, and Mesembriornis, likewise of late Tertiary date, is a close forerunner of the recent genus Rhea.

Kekule was the forerunner of his celebrated benzene theory in particular, and of the universal application of structural formulae to the representation of the most complex organic compounds equally lucidly as the representation of the simplest salts.

Baius is chiefly interesting as a forerunner of the more celebrated Cornelius Jansen (see Jansen).

They had a forerunner in Luiz Antonio Verney, who poured sarcasm on the prevailing methods of education, and exposed to good effect the extraordinary literary and scientific decadence of Portugal in an epoch-making work, the Verdadeiro methodo de estudar.

On August 14, 1977, the Chinese Kung Fu Teahouse, the forerunner of Taiwan 's modern teahouses, was estab-lished.

While it may look like an ordinary sports digital watch, the Forerunner 405 from Garmin is actually GPS enabled.

While many other similar watches use buttons, the Forerunner 405 has a touch bezel that lets you switch screens with a simple tap.

The Garmin Forerunner 405 can be purchased through such retailers as Amazon.com.

Crude and elementary to us now, but they are certainly the forerunner of modern decorative painting techniques.

While frescos aimed at portraying actual painted figures and are also the forerunner of the modern mural, the subtle washes of color in many remain bright examples of a look that is achieved when color is applied on a utilitarian medium.

It was marketed for the photojournalism field due to its portability and quality, and was the forerunner of digital cameras to come.

It also has partnerships in Peru which has been a forerunner and leader of fair trade initiations during the past twenty years.

Lotze publicly and formally denied that he belonged to the school of Herbart, though he admitted that historically the same doctrine which might be considered the forerunner of Herbart's teachings might lead to his own views, viz.

One of these, Prothylacinus, is regarded as the forerunner of the marsupial wolf of Tasmania.

By common consent of Christendom, John was the forerunner of the founder of the Christian Church.

His theory of the connexion between the soul and the body is in some respects analogous to that of Malebranche; but he is not therefore to be regarded as a true forerunner of Occasionalism,.

So great a success was scored that other shows were held in the same year at Birmingham and Edinburgh; while the Cleveland Agricultural Society also established a show of foxhounds at Redcar, the latter being the forerunner of that very fine show of hounds which is now held at Peterborough every summer and is looked upon as the out-of-season society gathering of hunting men and women.

Accordingly his assertion of the unity of God was at the same time a declaration of the unity of Being, and in virtue of this declaration he is entitled to rank as the founder of Eleaticism, inasmuch as the philosophy of Parmenides was his forerunner's pantheism divested of its theistic element.

Hence we shall not be surprised to find that the two tendencies are fully represented in primitive Christianity, and, still more strange as it may appear, that New Testament apocalyptic found a more ready hearing amid the stress and storm of the 1st century than the prophetic side of Christianity, and that the type of the forerunner on the side of its declared asceticism appealed more readily to primitive Christianity than that of Him who came "eating and drinking," declaring both worlds good and both God's.

Soon after the introduction of the literary journal in England, one of a more familiar tone was started by the eccentric John Dunton in the Athenian Gazette, or Casuistical Mercury, resolving all the most Nice and Curious Questions (1689-1690 to 1695-1696), afterwards called The Athenian Mercury, a kind of forerunner of Notes and Queries, being a penny weekly sheet, with a quarterly critical supplement.

Ticknor, Everett and Bigelow were among the members, and were contributors to the organ of the club, the monthly Anthology and Boston Review (1803-1811), the forerunner of the North American Review.

Sainte-Beuve in his Tableau of 1828 sang the praises of Chenier as an heroic forerunner of the Romantic movement and a precursor of Victor Hugo.

This resolution was the forerunner of the Test Act, in the preparation of which Sacheverell took an active part, and which caused the break up of the cabal.

In combining the two and expressing the effect of nature on the feelings and of the feelings on the aspect of nature he was absolutely without a forerunner or ` a model.

The earliest forerunner of the great sisterhood of nurses of whom we have any record was Fabiola, a patrician Roman lady, who in A.D.

His first conspicuous success was achieved in 1862 with David Elginbrod, the forerunner of a number of popular novels, which include Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865), Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1866), Robert Falconer (1868), Malcolm (1875), The Marquis of Lossie (1877), and Donal Grant (1883).

The Icelandic colony was an interesting forerunner of the American republic, having a prosperous population living under a republican government, and maintaining an independent national spirit for nearly four centuries.

But John was only a forerunner.

His election for Clare in 1828 proved the forerunner of the inevitable change, and the Catholic claims were granted the next year, to the intense regret of the Protestant Irish, by a government avowedly hostile to the last, but unable to withstand the overwhelming pressure of a people united to insist on justice.

If we add to this logic of " idea," judgment and inference, a doctrine of categories in the modern sense of the word which makes the Theaetetus, in which it first occurs, a forerunner of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, we have clearly a very significant contribution to logic even in technical regard.

It is in the latter group that we have the explanation of all that marks Locke as a forerunner of the critical philosophy.

Nathan of Gaza assumed the role of Elijah, the Messiah's forerunner, proclaimed the coming restoration of Israel and the salvation of the world through the bloodless victory of Sabbatai "riding on a lion with a seven-headed dragon in his jaws" (Graetz).

The short appendix, in which the attempt is made to present the chief points of the argument in geometrical form, is a forerunner of the Ethics, and was probably written somewhat later than the rest of the book.

In 1786 New Jersey sent delegates to the Annapolis Convention, which was the forerunner of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in the following year.

Shortly afterwards this committee became the "International Association of the Congo," which in its turn was the forerunner of the Congo Free State.