forestart
nounEtymology From fore- + start. Compare German Vorsprung (“headstart”).
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A head start.
- c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven, but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection, and die there; […]