Forslow

Alternative forms

• foreslow, fore-slow

Origin

From Middle English forslowen, forslewen ("to neglect"), from Old English forslāwian, forslǣwan ("to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off"), equivalent to - + slow.

Full definition of forslow

Verb

1. (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.
2. (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.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
• c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3:Foreslow no longer, make we hence amaine.

Derived terms

• forslowth