fore-slowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Alteration of earlier forslow (spelling presumably influenced by fore-), from 中期英語 forslowen. More at forslow.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/, /fə(ɹ)ˈsləʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

動詞

foreslow (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.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

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

2. (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 could foreslow / Their hasty pace.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iune. Ægloga Sexta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

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

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “foreslow”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.