Definition of "foreslow"

foreslow

/fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present foreslows, present participle foreslowing, simple past and past participle foreslowed
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes
  Then rise, ye blessed flocks! and home apace, Lest night with stealing steps do you foreslow
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,