Foreslay

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To slay beforehand or in advance. poetic, rare, transitive

    "Sole Mediator, God had promised Him, In Eden'd [sic] days an offering for sin, Immaculate conceived, the Holy One, Ere yet the earth was fashioned, the Lamb of God fore-slain."

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"Sole Mediator, God had promised Him, In Eden'd [sic] days an offering for sin, Immaculate conceived, the Holy One, Ere yet the earth was fashioned, the Lamb of God fore-slain."

Etymology

From fore- + slay.

Related phrases

in advance

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