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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Forerunner \Fore*run"ner\, n.
     1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of
        others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a
        prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.
  
              Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even
              Jesus.                                --Heb. vi. 20.
  
              My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. --Dryden.
  
     2. A predecessor; an ancestor. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     3. (Naut.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  forerunner
       n 1: anything that precedes something similar in time;
            "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
            [syn: {antecedent}]
       2: a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
          [syn: {precursor}]
       3: an indication of the approach of something or someone [syn:
          {harbinger}, {herald}, {precursor}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Forerunner
     John the Baptist went before our Lord in this character (Mark
     1:2, 3). Christ so called (Heb. 6:20) as entering before his
     people into the holy place as their head and guide.
     

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