English

Alternative forms

• forslow

Verb

foreslow ‎(third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed)

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.
   • Fairfax

     No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.