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foreslay

verb

Etymology

From fore- + slay.

  1. derived from *slak-✻ — “to hit, strike, throw”
  2. inherited from *slahaną✻ — “to hit, strike; to kill”
  3. inherited from *slahan✻
  4. inherited from slēan — “to hit, punch, strike; to kill”
  5. inherited from sleen
  6. prefixed as foreslay — “fore + slay”

Definitions

  1. To slay beforehand or in advance.

    • 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, [...]

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for foreslay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA