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timeous, timous, a. (adv.) Chiefly Sc.|ˈtaɪməs|
Forms: 5 tymys, 6 tymouse, -ouis, -ose, tymmos, 6–7 tymous, -eous, 7– timeous, timous.
[f. time n. + -ous; perh. after wrongous, righteous. Occasionally pronounced (ˈtaɪmiːəs) or |ˈtɪmjəs|, from the spelling: cf. righteous.]
1. Early (in the morning, or in the season); sufficiently early; done betimes: = timely a. 1.
c1470[implied in timeously]. c1520Nisbet N.T. in Scots Jas. v. 7 Pacientlie suffring, till he resaue tymouse and laatsum fruit. 1564Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 292 Upoun lauchfull and tymous warning. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. xxi. xvii. (S.T.S.) I. 324 Sayand..that thai sould haue goode huntting on the morne and bad him be tymmos. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 319 It cannot be a lawfull Assemblie when there is not lawfull and tymous intimation and premonition made. 1687Royal Proclam. 12 Feb., in Lond. Gaz. No. 2221/5 We do hereby Command, Our Lyon King at Arms,..to make timeous Proclamation thereof at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh. 1825Jamieson s.v., See that ye keep timeous hours, i.e. that ye be not too late. 1910Highland Railw. Time-table July, Stops to take up for East of Aviemore [Inverness] on timeous notice being given to the Station Master.
b. as adv. Early, betimes. Now dial.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. xxii. xxiv. (S.T.S.) II. 135 Tymose in the morning he departit of the toun. 1679J. Russell in Kirkton Hist. Ch. Scot., etc. (1817) App. 430 Timous in the morning they went to their prayers. 1892Ballymena Obs. (E.D.D.), A'll be up gye an' timus in the mornin'.
2. Coming in due time; suitable or proper in respect of time; well-timed, seasonable, opportune; = timely a. 2.
a1626Bacon (J.), By a wise and timous inquisition, the peccant humours and humourists may be discovered, purged, or cut off. 1656J. Fergusson On Colossians 136 Those fruits were timeous, and constant. 1729Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 451, I fear his writings do a world of mischief, without a timeous antidote. 1849Aytoun Lays. Scot. Cav. (ed. 2) 96 His retreat was timeous, for General Mackay..had despatched a strong force..to make him prisoner. 1884Athenæum 1 Mar. 271/1 The book [R. McCormick's ‘Voyages’] is timeous.
3. a. Temporal; of finite time: = timely a. 3. b. Keeping time, moving in time or measure. nonce-uses.
1855Bailey Spir. Leg. in Mystic, etc. 103 Duration, timeous and æterne, and space. 1884D. Grant Lays & Leg. North 112 Never yet to mortal measures Raise and fell sic timous feet. |