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slow-paced, a.
[slow a.]
1. Having a slow pace, gait, or motion:
a. Of persons or animals. slow-paced lemur or slow-paced loris, the slow lemur.
1594Kyd Cornelia iii. i, The sleepie Waine-man softly droue His slow-pac'd Teeme. c1605T. Walkington Optick Glasse 40 Heare what the poet affirmes in an epigram vpon a slowpac'd lurdaine. 1664H. Power Exp. Philos. i. 36 This Slimy Animal (the slow-paced Engine of Nature) The great Black Snail. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. i. i. 16 note, Like the sober and slow-paced Animal generally employed to mount the Lord Mayor. 1784Cowper Task v. 32 Patient of the slow-pac'd swain's delay. 1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 81 Lemur Tardigradus, Slow-paced Lemur. 1870Bryant Iliad vi. I. 203 Achilles the swift-footed slew them all Among their slow-paced bullocks.
fig. and transf.1648J. Beaumont Psyche xiv. xli, The Judge may know Whether his Sentence more by Passion's haste, Than slow-pac'd Reason's Rules he has not past. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 503 Our slow-pac'd Natures cannot travel from one to the other.
b. Of inanimate objects.
1617Drummond of Hawthornden Forth Feasting Wks. (1711) 37/2 Some few Years And Revolutions of the slow-pac'd Spheres. 1713Swift Elegy on Partridge Wks. 1755 III. ii. 80 That slow-pac'd sign Bootes.
2. Of time, etc.: Slow in coming or passing; tardy, lingering.
1629Massinger Roman Actor v. ii, How slow-paced are these minutes! 1667Milton P.L. x. 963 This days Death denounc't,..Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac't evill. a1700Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 262 Each slow-pac'd Minute seems to be a Year. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iv. vii. 14 Yet Summer dies in Autumn's fruitful Reign, And slow-pac'd Winter soon returns again. 1878B. Taylor Pr. Deukalion ii. iii. 70 Slow-paced is Fate. |