v. Obs. [f. FORTH adv. + SET v.] trans. To set forth; to present to view, display.
c. 1565. Lindsay of Pitscottie, Chron. Scot. (1728), 1. Where ever is no Awe nor Fear of a King or Prince, they, that are most forthy in the ingyring and forthsetting themselves, live without Measure or Obedience.
1585. Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 37.
| I had farr rather Babell tower forthsett, | |
| Then the thre Grecian hilles on others plett. |
Hence Forthsetting vbl. sb.
1528. J. Hackett to Wolsey (MS. Cott. Galba, B. ix. 181). Yt myght be a forthesettyng of Frenchemen to make ther bragges.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. (1846), I. 344. Being conveaned in the town of Perth, in the name of Jesus Christ, for furthsetting of his glorie.
a. 1847. Chalmers, Posth. Wks., I. 76. Let me not enter on the vain attempt to enhance the impression of this celebrated story by any forthsetting of mine.
1863. A. B. Grosart, Small Sins (ed. 2), Prefatory Note, 10–1. It has seemed therefore to me advisable to—occasionally, at any rate—select less obvious forth-setting OF THE SAME GREAT TRUTHS, and by the wile of unexpectedness arrest and sustain attention.
