A taste beforehand.
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.
To taste beforehand.
To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
To taste before another.
From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).
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[...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]