forestaged

Verb

forestage (third-person singular simple present forestages, present participle forestaging, simple past and past participle forestaged)

1. To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.
   • There is subtle thought, even profound thought, not so much in the working out of the plots as in the selection and forestaging of such humorous situations as make the plots work themselves out.1925, O. Henry, Works - Volume 13, page xxiii
2. (broadly) To make prominent; to bring into focus.
   • Not only was Binodlal one of the first to forestage sontap (“heat”) as the key element in fevers, but he was also one of the first to try to understand sontap as "motion."2016, Projit Bihari Mukharji, Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences, →ISBN

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