forslow
Verb
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Verb
forslow (forslows, present participle forslowing; past and past participle forslowed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
- 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, V.8:
- If you can think upon any present means for his delivery, do not foreslow it.
- 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour, V.8:
- (transitive, obsolete) To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- But by no meanes my way I would forslow / For ought that ever she could doe or say […]
- 1682, John Dryden, Epistles, XIII:
- The wond'ring Nereids, though they rais'd no storm, / Foreslow'd her passage, to behold her form.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:
- Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:
- (To be dilatory about) See also Thesaurus:procrastinate
- (To delay) See also Thesaurus:hinder
- (To be slow or dilatory) See also Thesaurus:loiter
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