Definition of Forelaid

1. forelay [v] - See also: forelay

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forelaid

foreking
forekings
foreknew
foreknow
foreknowable
foreknower
foreknowing
foreknowingly
foreknowledge
foreknowledges
foreknown
foreknows
forel
foreladies
forelady
forelaid (current term)
forelain
foreland
forelands
forelay
forelays
forelead
foreleader
foreleaders
foreleg
forelegs
forelend
forelends
forelent
forelie

Literary usage of Forelaid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of Treatys by S. W. (1732)
"... concluded and agreed betwixt our Deputy and the Deputies of our forelaid moft Dear Brother, the 5th Day of November laft paft, OS according to all and ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"And now, ere we go on, let us take a pause and consider a little, that after the apostle had forelaid all the things—1, of an inner man (in distinction from ..."

3. The Works by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1835)
"That is the first thing to be forelaid. For those books that, upon examination, were found to be punctually true, it was very plain from the history of ..."

4. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... he might describe or divide a right line, had yet rather do this in a circle or longer way, according to the constituted and forelaid principles of his ..."

5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"3 Now the mystery of this "sign" was in various ways predicted; (a " sign ") in which the foundation of life was forelaid for mankind; (a" sign ") in which ..."

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