Foreslay

Quick meaning: Foreslay is a verb meaning (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic) To slay beforehand or in advance.

Meaning

(transitive, rare, chiefly poetic) To slay beforehand or in advance.

Example Sentences

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.

[...], 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.

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, [...]

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, [...]

Word Forms

• foreslays
• foreslaying
• foreslew
• foreslain
• fore-slay

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forelay, foresay, forecut, foresing, foresign, foreseize.

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