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foreslow en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/ (UK)
• /fə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/ (UK)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier forslow (spelling presumably influenced by fore-), from Middle English forslowen. More at forslow.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
   • Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow, and to move with more than one motion. 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
2. (obsolete, transitive) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
   • No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace. 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
   • Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace, Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

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