forstall
See also: förställ
English
Verb
forstall (third-person singular simple present forstalls, present participle forstalling, simple past and past participle forstalled)
- Obsolete form of forestall.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- they weened fowle reproch
Was to them doen , their entraunce to forstall
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References
- forstall in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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