foreslow

See also: fore-slow

English

Alternative forms

• forslow

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/, /fə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

Verb

foreslow (third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed)

1. (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.

2. (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. Aegloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace,
     Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “foreslow”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.