slow-pacedadj.

1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii. sig. D4 The sleepie Waine-man softly droue, His slow-pac'd Teeme.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse ii. sig. D4^v Heare what the poet affirmes in an epigram vppon a slowpac'd lurdame.

1611 J. Donne Anat. World sig. A7 When, if a slow pac'd starre had stolne away From the obseruers marking, he might stay Two or three hundred yeares to see't againe.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 36 This Slimy Animal (the slow-paced Engine of Nature) The great Black Snail.

1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 102 Like the sober and slow-paced Animal generally employed to mount the Lord Mayor.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 32 Patient of the slow-pac'd swain's delay.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. vi. 203 Achilles the swift-footed slew them all Among their slow-paced bullocks.

1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 1/2 Automobiles are already disputing the roads with slow-paced oxcarts on crude wooden wheels.

2007 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 2 Nov. Boxed in by the pack of slow-paced runners, he stopped in his tracks, then moved to the third lane and passed everyone.

1598 tr. L. B. Alberti Hecatonphila f. 8 Out-wearing the slow-paced howers.

1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor v. ii. sig. K3 How slowe pac'd are these minutes!

a1711 T. Ken Edmund ix, in Wks. (1721) II. 262 Each slow-pac'd Minute seems to be a Year.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. vii. 14 Yet Summer dies in Autumn's fruitful Reign, And slow-pac'd Winter soon returns again.

1872 Arthur's Lady's Home Mag. Mar. 156/2 The slow-paced minutes seemed to lengthen into hours.

1610 J. Mason Turke i. i. sig. C How slowepac'd is sorrow? Griefe is a Tortoyse to the nimble sence.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 963 This days Death denounc't,..Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac't evill. View more context for this quotation

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xiv. xli. 212 The Judge may know Whether his Sentence more by Passion's haste, Than slow-pac'd Reason's Rules he has not past.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 292 Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iii. 70 Slow-paced is Fate.

1892 Law Times 92 433/2 The merchant..does not endure the slow-paced progress of justice with the same amount of patience as his father.

1905 Sewanee Rev. 13 279 The graver verse-forms, blank verse, the ode, and slow-paced rhymed pentameters.

1919 Lotus Mag. Apr. 212/2 Occasionally, the play is somewhat slow paced.

2008 M. Tobias in E. B. Maranan & L. S. Maranan-Goldstein Taste of Home 91/1 Its slow-paced and less stressful way of life.

1790 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist’s Misc. I. Pl. 29 (heading) The Slow-paced lemur.

1831 E.T. Bennett Gardens & Menagerie Royal Soc. I. 141 The Slow-paced Lemur is an animal of small size, scarcely equal to that of a cat.

1896 H.O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates I. 23 The Pottos and Slow-paced Lemurs (Lorisinæ).

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 23/1 We here adopt Mr. Bennett's view of the subject, and take the Slender Loris and the Slow-paced Loris, or Slow-paced Lemur, both of which are confounded by Linnæus under the name of Lemur tardigradus, as examples of the genus Loris.

1861 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 107 The Slow-paced Loris, or Kukang, is very similar in its habits to [the Slender Loris].