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Webster 1913 Edition
Forslack
For-slack′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
for-
+ slack
to neglect.] To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Forslack
FORSLACK'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
forslack
forslack
English
Alternative forms
Verb
forslack (third-person singular simple present forslacks, present participle forslacking, simple past and past participle forslacked)
- (intransitive, rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.
- (transitive, obsolete) To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.
- But they were virgins all, and love eschewed / That might forslack the charge to them foreshewed. ― Spenser.
- The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking counsell with his fellowes, laide hands uppon this Peter, and brought him before the inquisitor. ― Foze.