Definition of "foretaste"

foretaste¹

noun
plural foretastes
1. A taste beforehand.
2. A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
  Quotations
  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.
  1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

foretaste²

verb
third-person singular simple present foretastes, present participle foretasting, simple past and past participle foretasted
1. (transitive) To taste beforehand.
2. (transitive) To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
3. (transitive) To taste before another.
  Quotations
  [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]
  1667, John Milton, Paradise lost