Foreslow

Alternative forms

• forslow

Origin

Alteration of earlier forslow, from Middle English forslowen. More at forslow.

Full definition of foreslow

Verb

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.
• FairfaxNo stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow
  Their hasty pace.