Meaning of foreslay | Babel Free

Definitions

To slay beforehand or in advance.

poetic, rare, transitive

Examples

“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, [...]”

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