Forslow vs Foreslow - What's the difference?
forslow | foreslow |
(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.
(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.
(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Henry VI, Part 3 :
*:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.
(obsolete) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
(obsolete) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
* Fairfax
Foreslow is a alternative form of forslow.
As verbs the difference between forslow and foreslow
is that forslow is to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit while foreslow is to be slow or tardy; to slow down.forslow
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(en verb)Derived terms
* (l)foreslow
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(en verb)- Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow , and to move with more than one motion.
- No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.
