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Forsteal

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of forestall. alt-of, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To steal away, rob, deprive. obsolete, transitive

    "Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English forstelen, from Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”), from Proto-Germanic *farstelaną, *frastelaną (“to steal, steal away”), equivalent to for- + steal. Cognate with Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”), Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”).

Etymology 2

Variant of forestall.

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