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Foresay vs Forelay - What's the difference?

foresay | forelay |

As verbs the difference between foresay and forelay

is that foresay is to say beforehand; predict; foretell while forelay is to lay down beforehand or forelay can be (forelie).

foresay

English

Verb

  • To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
  • To decree; ordain; appoint.
    • Let ordinance Come as the gods foresay it — Shakespeare.

    forelay

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

  • To lay down beforehand
    • These grounds being forelaid and understood. — Mede.
    I shall, before I instance, only forelay this That we must consider ...'' — ''The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. , 1822
  • To waylay
    • Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh -- and breed panic above?”'' — James B. Connally, ''Sonnie-Boy's People , 1913
  • To plan, contrive in advance
    • You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then.'' — Charles Neville Buck, ''The Tyranny of Weakness , 1917

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (forelie)
    • References
    (Webster 1913)