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
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