forelay
verbEtymology From fore- + lay.
1
To lay down beforehand
- these grounds being forelaid and understooda. 1639, Joseph Mede, Discourse V - Let a man so account of us as the Ministers of Christ, and Stewards of the Mysteries of God:
- I shall, before I instance, only forelay this That we must consider […]1822, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.:
2
To waylay.
- c. 1624, Joseph Hall, a sermon either some secret detractor hath forelaid thee by a whispering misintimation
- Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh — and breed panic above?”1913, James B. Connally, Sonnie-Boy's People:
3
To plan; contrive in advance
- You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then.1917, Charles Neville Buck, The Tyranny of Weakness: