Foresnaffle

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To restrain; prohibit. obsolete, rare, transitive

    "Had I not foresnaffled my mind by votarie promise Not to yoke in wedlock too no wight earthly my person, When my first feloship by murther beastly was eended, Had I not such daliaunce, such pipling bed gle renounced, Haply this one faultie […]"

Example

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"Had I not foresnaffled my mind by votarie promise Not to yoke in wedlock too no wight earthly my person, When my first feloship by murther beastly was eended, Had I not such daliaunce, such pipling bed gle renounced, Haply this one faultie […]"

Etymology

From fore- + snaffle.

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