forestalment
(fɔəˈstɔːlmənt)
[f. forestall v. + -ment.]
The action of forestalling in various senses; an instance of this. a. Law. Hindering from entry on land, etc. b. Buying up goods beforehand. c. Anticipation in general; † prejudice.
| a. 1628 Coke On Litt. 162 a, A forestallment with such a menace [of death or mutilation] is a disseisin. |
| b. 1861 Riley Liber Albus 172 A fine exacted for the Forestalment of cloths. |
| c. 1611 Cotgr., Anticipation..forestallment. 1612–15 Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xxx, One dram of prejudice or forestalment turns the scales. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. iii. 187 Which..rash censure and forestallment of their endevours, does not [etc.]. 1876 Mozley Univ. Serm. iv. 87 The canonisation of men..professes to be a forestalment..of the final judgment. 1882 T. Hardy Two on Tower II. v. 85 He had learnt the fatal forestallment of his stellar discovery. |