ppl. a. [f. FORESTALL v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.; bespoken, or taken beforehand; anticipated; prejudiced.

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1543.  Act 25 Edw. III., III. c. 3. The thinges forstalled shalbe forfeyt to the kynge.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 39.

        When he in presence came, to Guyon first
  He boldly spake, Sir knight, if knight thou bee,
  Abandon this forestalled place at erst,
  For feare of further harme, I counsell thee.

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1642.  Rogers, Naaman, 99. His prejudicate and forestalled heart.

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1872.  W. R. Greg, Enigmas (1873), 124. Those whose physical and mental energies have been sapped, and whose charaters have been greviously impaired, by long indulgence and forestalled desires.

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