foreslow

Definitions

1. To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
   intransitive, obsolete
2. To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
   obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow, and to move⟳ with more than one motion.”

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

“Then rise⟳, ye blessed flocks! and home apace, Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow”

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