单词 | forestalling |
释义 | forestallingn. The action of forestall v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > deprivation of movement > by hindering or obstructing passage forestallinga1387 intercipation1570 intercluding1592 obstructiona1616 interception1624 forestalment1628 cohibition1882 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 95 Forstallynge, wrong oþer let i-doo in þe kynges hiȝe weie. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xixv Yf by suche forstallynge and manassynge he that hath rent charge..is forstalled. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 156 Acquitted of all exactions, and customes of charge, excepte fellonie, breache of the peace, and forstalling. 1594 R. Crompton L'Authoritie & Iurisdict. des Courts f. 153v Mes si le cheine per chaunce obuie vn Dame et luy tue, ceo nest forestalling. 2. The buying up of goods beforehand, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > buying up goods for resale or monopoly regrateryc1400 regratinga1450 engrossing?1542 forestalling1548 engrossment1598 coemption1625 abbrochment1670 forestalment1861 switch dealing1957 switch deal1973 1548 T. Cranmer Catechismus sig. Kv By forstallynge, regratyng, agrementes in haules to rayse the price of thinges. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Burrow Lawes 141 That na man of quhat estate he be may repledge his man, for foristallinge fra the Court of the burgh. 1735 J. Kirby Suffolk Traveller (1764) 53 The Practice of Forestalling is carried to such a height, as [etc.]. 1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 27 Usury is..a forestalling of money. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 379 Edicts were directed against forestalling, that is, transacting any business before the opening of the fair. 3. The fact of being before or beforehand with some one or something else; anticipation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > anticipation, forecast > [noun] forecastinga1529 foreguessing1548 prevening1557 prejudice1560 prolepsis1578 foredeeming1587 forestalment1611 forestalling1641 forethought1653 anticipation1711 pre-empting1857 precasting1863 second-guessing1946 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > anticipation preventing1530 preoccupation1552 anticipation1553 antedate1573 prolepsis1578 forestalment1611 forestalling1641 precourse1678 pre-echo1781 pre-empting1857 previousness1881 proaction1953 proactivity1965 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie i. xvi. 112 With her [sc. the Swan's] fore-stalling of death, and singing her owne obsequies. 1782 T. Paine Let. to Abbe Raynal (1791) Introd. 4 The forestalling the Abbe's publication by London editions. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism v. 95 A proud forestalling of misery. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 343 This sounds very like a forestalling of the Gunpowder Plot. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [noun] > appropriation > beforehand forestalling1655 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 115 Such forestalling of Livings to Forrainers was forbidden. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). forestallingadj. That forestalls, in senses of the verb. ΚΠ 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. F To bridle the extorting and forestalling coosenage. 1637 J. Milton Comus 11 Perhaps fore-stalling night prævented them. 1799 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 1 148 The monopolizing and fore~stalling butchers cannot take in the public. 1840 T. Hood Open Quest. in New Monthly Mag. Aug. 530 No children, with forestalling smiles, Throng, happy, to the gates of Eden Minor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1387adj.1592 |
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