foreslow
See also: fore-slow
English
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editEtymology
editAlteration of earlier forslow (spelling presumably influenced by fore-), from Middle English forslowen. More at forslow.
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editforeslow (third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
- 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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
- 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:
- No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace,
Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow
References
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “foreslow”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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