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foreslowverb
To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
foreslowverb
To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
Etymology: Alteration of earlier forslow, from forslowen. More at forslow.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Foreslowverb
Etymology: fore and slow.
No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow
Their hasty pace. Edward Fairfax, b. i.Now the illustrious nymph return’d again,
Brings every grace triumphant in her train:
The wond’ring Nereids, though they rais’d no storm,
Foreslow’d her passage, to behold her form. Dryden.When the rebels were on Blackheath, the king knowing well that it stood him upon, by how much the more he had hitherto protracted the time in not encountering them, by so much the sooner to dispatch with them, that it might appear to have been no coldness in foreslowing, but wisdom in chusing his time, resolved with speed to assail them. Francis Bacon, Hen. VII.
Chremes, how many fishers do you know
That rule their boats and use their nets aright,
That neither wind, nor time, nor tide foreslow?
Some such have been: but, ah! by tempests spite
Their boats are lost; while we may sit and moan
That few were such, and now these few are none. Phineas Fletcher.To Foreslowverb
To be dilatory; to loiter.
This may plant courage in their quailing breasts,
For yet is hope of life and victory:
Foreslow no longer, make we hence amain. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.
Webster Dictionary
Foreslowverb
to make slow; to hinder; to obstruct. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. t
Foreslowverb
to loiter. [Obs.] See Forslow, v. i
Etymology: [See Forslow.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Foreslow
fōr-slō′, v.i. (Shak.) to delay.—v.t. (Spens.) to hinder.—Better Forslow′.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of foreslow in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of foreslow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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