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Webster 1913 Edition


Forslack

For-slack′

,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
for-
+
slack
to neglect.]
To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forslack

FORSLACK'

,
Verb.
T.
To delay. Obs.

Definition 2024


forslack

forslack

English

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Verb

forslack (third-person singular simple present forslacks, present participle forslacking, simple past and past participle forslacked)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.
    But they were virgins all, and love eschewed / That might forslack the charge to them foreshewed. ― Spenser.
    The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking counsell with his fellowes, laide hands uppon this Peter, and brought him before the inquisitor. ― Foze.