forelay

present singular third person forelays · participle present forelaying · participle past forelaid · past forelaid

1. To lay down beforehand

   these grounds being forelaid and understood

   a. 1639, Joseph Mede, Discourse V - Let a man so account of us as the Ministers of Christ, and Stewards of the Mysteries of God

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   I shall, before I instance, only forelay this That we must consider […]

   1822, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.

2. To waylay.

   c. 1624, Joseph Hall, a sermon either some secret detractor hath forelaid thee by a whispering misintimation

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   Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh — and breed panic above?”

   1913, James B. Connally, Sonnie-Boy's People

3. To plan; contrive in advance

   You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then.

   1917, Charles Neville Buck, The Tyranny of Weakness

1. pastsimple past of forelie