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Definition of Forestalls
1. forestall [v] - See also: forestall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forestalls
Literary usage of Forestalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"So, if he forestalls, or obstructs the lord. &c. when he is going to the land io
make a distress, with force or menace of life or member. Lit. sect. ..."
2. Discussions on the Atonement: Is it Vicarious? by George Jamieson (1887)
"He tells us that it has been deemed impossible to ascertain these relations:
hence the author at once forestalls the impossibility of attaining to a ..."