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vb. 1 (context transitive idiomatic English) to put oneself at the whim of, to bow down to 2 (context transitive idiomatic English) (especially of something honorific) to be situated in front of
Usage examples of "lie before".
Perhaps the time will come when all the runes will lie before him, the blank rune adorned with its symbols.
From the terrace road along the shore, Via Plutino, beauties and glories indescribable lie before one at every turn of the head.
Not a scroll of the mysteries, but the mysteries themselves would for that hour at least lie before me revealed.
Howbeit, whatso might lie before her, she put a good face upon it, and did to those about her queenly and with all courtesy.
Though she could not remember ever having told a lie before, she adhered with rigid tenacity to the consequences of her first lapse from truth, and fortified her original statement with additional details whenever a questioner sought to take her unawares.
But I beseech you to reserve your judgment until we see it applied to the details which lie before us.
They would not run recklessly headlong into a Kolder den, knowing only too well the nature of the enemy and the traps which might lie before them.
Even if it were available, the prospect of administering to the kingdom down all the dull centuries that might lie before me was overwhelming.
Yet such men as he are reared here and there in every generation of our peasant artisans--with an inheritance of affections nurtured by a simple family life of common need and common industry, and an inheritance of faculties trained in skilful courageous labour: they make their way upwards, rarely as geniuses, most commonly as painstaking honest men, with the skill and conscience to do well the tasks that lie before them.