Foresnaffle
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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 […]"
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More examples"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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