Dictionary

foreslay en · VERB

Etymology

From fore- + slay.

Meanings

1. (poetic, rare, transitive) To slay beforehand or in advance.
   • Since bras nor stone gnaw earth, nor brazenry but Dad morality foreslays there pudeur a slave is no salve more Ordure, First Class, I for an I in the very temple of delight! Out/r/age of need, of mutiles, of shame, rage at shame, shame at rage, [...] 2010, John Goodby, Illennium - Page 44:
   • [...], provided that in the meantime they do not lose their better friends — because he has not known a time when friends in Scotland were more worth, nor "foreslew" such other good opportunities and advantages as may be offered. 1913, William K. Boyd, Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots 1547-1603 Vol. VII, A.D. 1584-1585 - Page 209:
   • Sole Mediator, God had promised Him, In Eden'd [sic] days an offering for sin, Immaculate conceived, the Holy One, Ere yet the earth was fashioned, the Lamb of God fore-slain. 1912, The Improvement Era, volume 16, page 103:
   • Then to recognize that dreams foreslay as they foresee the future, even the one hypnagogue stinging for the cause Compleat Sexuality in the words “snakes are cookie”— dream words— nonsense— and wake trying to do something with that, [...] 2000, Harrison Fisher, Poematics Of The Hyperbloody Real: Poems 1980-2001:

Forms