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Definition of Forslack
1. v. t. To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.
Definition of Forslack
1. Verb. (intransitive rare) To slack up; be or grow slack; pall. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Forslack
1. to be slack [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forslack
Literary usage of Forslack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1920)
"... With wondrous beauty fit to kindle love ; But they were virgins all, and love
eschewed That might forslack the charge to them ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Aeneid, x. 720 ; xi. 412. I can find no third example of the form forsaken being
thus contracted. (Not in NED.). forslack ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1912)
"... the which were all endowed With wondrous beauty fit to kindle love ; But they
were virgins all, and love eschewed That might forslack the charge to them ..."
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