forestal
- a word derived from forest.
Example Sentences
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I will forestal their repair hither, and say you are not fit.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob
We do not find in the Venetian forestal legislation much evidence that geographical arguments were taken into account by the lawgivers, who seem to have had an eye only to economical considerations.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.
In mediæval country life, then, commons might be either manorial or forestal.
From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
Had my intention beene to forestal and purchase the worlds opinion and favor, I would surely have adorned my selfe more quaintly, or kept a more grave and solemne march.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
In this manner, men of irregular habits anticipate and forestal every hour of their lives, and pleasure and pain alternate, till pain, like debt, accumulates, and sinks its patient below the level of the world.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 by Various
