forelay

Verb

forelay (third-person singular simple present forelays, present participle forelaying, simple past and past participle forelaid)

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.
   • either some secret detractor hath forelaid thee by a whispering misintimationc. 1624, Joseph Hall, a sermon
   • 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