"forerule" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + rule.",
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      "form": "foreruling",
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          "ref": "1843, The Pupil of Raphael, volumes 1-2, page 37",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1876, Chambers's Journal, volume 53, page 627",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1883, George Henry Calvert, Brangonar: A Tragedy, page 63",
          "text": "Prevision is of man's prerogatives\nThat one whereby, with likeliest warranty,\nHe claims companionship with Godhead's self,\nWith what creates and forerules wheeling worlds.",
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          "ref": "1889, Michael Doyle, Cause, page 11",
          "text": "It would have been unjust to deify\nImpotent instruments fore-ruled to course —\nBeings who could of self no good invite,\nEven might creation thus wake negatives.",
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          "ref": "1892, George Ferguson, Our Earth - Night to Twilight, volume 1, page 8",
          "text": "Foreruling sure Man's fateful passages!",
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        {
          "ref": "1897, Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Baron Latymer, King Arthur",
          "text": "England the turbulent, foreruled by none,\nStrong to do right,\nEngland the jubilant, Christendom's sun,\nFull be thy light!",
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        },
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          "ref": "1908, John Payne, Carol and Cadence, page 240",
          "text": "Alas, without Death and the Fates that forerule him I reckoned, […]",
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        "To rule beforehand or ahead of time"
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          "beforehand",
          "beforehand"
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          "ahead of time",
          "ahead of time"
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        "(transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time"
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          "word": "fore-rule"
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          "ref": "1843, The Pupil of Raphael, volumes 1-2, page 37",
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          "ref": "1876, Chambers's Journal, volume 53, page 627",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "1889, Michael Doyle, Cause, page 11",
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          "type": "quotation"
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        "(transitive) To rule beforehand or ahead of time"
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    {
      "word": "fore-rule"
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  "word": "forerule"
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