† forthdealn.
Obsolete.
= fordeal n.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another > an advantage
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 38 That is to saye: as good a forthdeale and auantage towardes the ende of the werke, as if a good porcion of the same wer already finyshed.
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