Alteration of earlierforslow (spelling presumably influenced byfore-), fromMiddle Englishforslowen. More atforslow.
- IPA(key): /fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/,/fə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
- Rhymes:-əʊ
foreslow (third-person singular simple presentforeslows,present participleforeslowing,simple past and past participleforeslowed)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To beslow ortardy; 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 toforeslow, and to move with more than one motion.
- (obsolete, transitive) To slow,hinder, delay,impede.
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e.,Edward Fairfax], transl.,Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes,→OCLC:No stream, no wood, no mountain couldforeslow / Their hasty pace.
