For-sláwian
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-sláwian
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- for-sláwian
- Substitute: (1) to lose by sloth, neglect through laziness :-- Ðonne wé forsláwiað ðone gecópestan tíman ... ðonne bistilð sió slǽwð on ús, Past. 283, 1. (2) to be slow to do :-- Þú náht ne forsláwodest ꝥ þú þín ágen feorh for hine ne sealdest thou wert not slow to give thine own life for him; vitae pretio non segnis emeres, Bt. 10; F. 28, 15. [N. E. D. forslow.] v. preceding word. for-slawian