Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FORE-STALL'
FORE-STALL', v.t. [See Stall.]
- To anticipate; to take beforehand. Why need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid? Milton.
- To hinder by preoccupation or prevention. I will not forestall your judgment of the rest. Pope.
- In law, to buy or bargain for corn, or provisions of any kind, before they arrive at the market or fair, with intent to sell them at higher prices. This is a penal offense. Encyc.
- To deprive by something prior. [Not in use.] Shak.
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