foretaste

noun

1. A taste beforehand.
2. A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.

   “When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.”

   “About two weeks ago I had another foretaste of success and immediately on it a veritable disaster.”

verb

1. (transitive)To taste beforehand.
2. (transitive)To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
3. (transitive)To taste before another.

   “[...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]”