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Omit vs Forslow - What's the difference?

omit | forslow |

As verbs the difference between omit and forslow

is that omit is to leave out or exclude while forslow is to be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.

omit

English

Verb

(omitt)
  • To leave out or exclude.
  • To fail to perform.
  • (rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    forslow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)