Forestall vs Engross - What's the difference?
forestall | engross | Synonyms |
(obsolete, or, historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
Something situated or placed in front.
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
(archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
* Milton
* 1919 ,
To deprive (with of ).
* Shakespeare
To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* De Quincey
(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
To completely engage the attention of.
(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To amass.
* Shakespeare
Forestall is a synonym of engross.
As verbs the difference between forestall and engross
is that forestall is while engross is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.forestall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forstal, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
- In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
- What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?
- She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants.
- All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* forestaller * forestalment * forestallmentAnagrams
* English words prefixed with fore-engross
English
Verb
(es)- some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
- laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
- After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
- Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
- She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
- As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
- waves engrossed with mud
- not sleeping, to engross his idle body
- to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf