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▪ I. † tarde, a. (adv.) Obs.
[ad. L. tard-us slow.]
1. Slow: = tardy a. 1 a.
1547Boorde Brev. Health §321 If naturally a mans memory is tarde of wyt and knowlege. 1624Heywood Gunaik. vii. 334 They neither speed, Nor doth their pace seeme tarde.
b. Late: = tardy a. 1 b. rare—0.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Tarde, late.
2. to take tarde, to overtake, surprise; = ‘to take tardy’ (tardy a. 2).
1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Dala ar y gamfa, take tarde. 1578Timme Caluine on Gen. iii. ii. 102 But God shall alwayes take vs tarde in the sinne of Adam. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xv. xxiii. (1886) 369 They were convicted, and..almost taken tarde with the deed doing.
B. adv.
a. Late.
b. Slowly. [F. tard adv.]
1557in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Collect. IV. 223 Forasmoche as Mr. John Hooper [and 5 others]..came into this house tarde, after nyne of the clocke this day, therefore they..are amerced in 12d. a peece. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 11/1 The winter, when as the corruptione goeth somwhat tarder or sloer forwarde.
▪ II. † tarde, v. Obs. rare.
[a. F. tarde-r (12th c. in Godef.):—L. tardāre.]
trans. To retard, delay.
1524St. Papers Hen. VIII, VI. 364 The said Duke and his armye was so tarded and retracted, that [etc.]. |