forslack

• foreslack

From for- +‎ slack.

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.
   • Edmund Spenser

     But they were virgins all, and love eschewed / That might forslack the charge to them foreshewed.

   • Foze

     The official thinking to foreslacke no time, taking counsell with his fellowes, laide hands uppon this Peter, and brought him before the inquisitor.