foreslows

Verb

foreslow (third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
   • Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow, and to move with more than one motion.1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
2. (obsolete, transitive) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
   • No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.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...