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▪ I. † forˈstand, foreˈstand, v.1 Obs.
[OE. forstandan, f. for- prefix1 + standan to stand.]
1. trans. To oppose, withstand; to bar.
In quot. 1599 perh. = ‘neglect’ (cf. forsit, or read foreslow'd).
a1000Boeth. Metr. i. 44 Ne meahte þa seo wea laf wiᵹe forstandan. c1205Lay. 20159 Arður wende his speres ord, and for-stod heom þene ford. 1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 58 He fore-stood nothing for the happie expedition of the same. [1892S. A. Brooke E.E. Lit. ii. xxv. 264 A mighty angel there forstood them.]
2. = understand. [Cf. Ger. verstehen.]
c888K. ælfred Boeth. v. §3 Uneaþe ic mæᵹ forstandan þine acsunga. 1682New News from Bedlam 47 How the..Papists will approve of it, we cannot forestand. 1768Ross Helenore 145 A cripple I'm not, ye forsta me.
▪ II. † forˈstand, v.2 Obs.
[f. for- prefix2 + stand v.]
trans. To stand up for, defend, represent.
[a1000Laws Ine lxii. in Thorpe Anc. Laws I. 142 Gif hine..nelle forstandan.] 1642Vindic. Parlt. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 277 The members of the parliament are chosen by us, and forstand us. |