forerun

verb

1. To run in front.

   “Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.”

2. To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.

   “These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.”

   “And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]”

   “Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.”