slow-moving, a.
[slow adv.]
That moves or goes slowly; slow-going.
| predic. 1720 Pope Iliad xxii. 494 Be this the song, slow-moving toward the shore. 1784 Cowper Task i. 160 Thence with what pleasure have we just discern'd The distant plough slow moving. 1856 Aytoun Bothwell ii. xxvii. 75 Overhead a meteor came, Slow-moving, tinging..The murky clouds. |
| attrib. 1784 Cowper Task vi. 697 The statesman of the day, A pompous and slow-moving pageant, comes. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 54/2 The arteries of the limbs in several slow-moving animals. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 308 Large droves of patient, slow-moving cattle arrived. |
b. transf. Making slow progress; advancing or acting slowly.
| 1644 Milton Areop. (Arb.) 76 The slow-moving Reformation we labour under. 1878 Morley Carlyle 160 Our slow-moving and unimaginative public. 1899 Mackail W. Morris II. 237 At last the slow-moving arm of authority came down upon it. |