Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
- To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
- To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, obsolete To delay; hinder; impede; obstruct.
- v. transitive, obsolete To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
- v. intransitive, obsolete To be slow or dilatory; loiter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.
- v. obsolete To loiter.
Etymologies
- From Middle English forslowen, forslewen ("to neglect"), from Old English forslāwian, forslǣwan ("to be slow, unwilling, delay, put off"), equivalent to for- + slow. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For we find that by the abundant treasure of that country the Spanish king vexes all the princes of Europe, and is become, in a few years, from a poor king of Castile, the greatest monarch of this part of the world, and likely every day to increase if other princes forslow the good occasions offered, and suffer him to add this empire to the rest, which by far exceedeth all the rest.”
“a second travail, and the chances thereof, than to have defaced an enterprise of so great assurance, until I knew whether it pleased God to put a disposition in her princely and royal heart either to follow or forslow (neglect, decline, lose through sloth) the same.”
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