Both Uses of
forestall
in
The Mill on the Floss
- If I were you, I think I would enter on the subject with Stelling at once: there's no necessity for sending the boy before Midsummer, but I would be on the safe side, and make sure that nobody forestalls you.†
Chpt 1.3forestalls = prevents something by taking action
- But forestalling his answer, she said,— "I suppose it's all astronomers; because, you know, they live up in high towers, and if the women came there they might talk and hinder them from looking at the stars."†
Chpt 2.1 *forestalling = preventing something by taking action
Definition:
to prevent or delay something by taking action