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▪ I. hasting, vbl. n.|ˈheɪstɪŋ|
[f. haste v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb haste; making haste, speeding; expedition, acceleration.
a1350Childh. Jesu 1590 (Mätz.) Þo Josep was comen in hastingue. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. iv. (1495) 224 The cause of hastynge of Manasses deth. a1400Arthur 377 Bedwer wyþ alle hastynge Tolde Arthour alle þis þynge. 1568Knt. of Curtesy 25 He praieth you in all hastynge To come in his court for to dwell.
▪ II. hasting, ppl. a. and n.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
A. ppl. a.
1. That hastes, speeding: see the verb.
1632Milton Sonn. ii, My hasting days fly on with full career. 1870Emerson Misc. Papers, Plutarch Wks. (Bohn) III. 343 To keep up with the hasting history.
†2. That ripens early: applied to varieties of fruit or vegetables. Obs.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. xxxv. 52 The huskes be..like a great hasting or garden pease. 1611Cotgr., Hastiveau..a hasting apple, or peare. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 243 How to raise hasting Strawberries. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hasting Pear,..It ripens in July.
B. n. [ellipt. use of the adj.]
†1. An early-ripening fruit or vegetable; spec. a kind of early pea. Obs. (or now only local).
1573Tusser Husb. xviii. (1878) 45 Sowe hastings now, if land it alow. 1585Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 101/2 Ficus præcox. Figue hastive. A rathe fig ripened before the time: an hasting. 1664Butler Hud. ii. Ep. to Sidrophel 22 To cry Green-Hastings. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking 115 Common cryers..persuade people to buy their oysters, green hastings, or new ballads. 1878Science Gossip Aug. 190 A day or two since I heard the cry ‘Green Hastings!’..fifty years ago, it was the usual cry for green peas.
†2. Applied to persons who hasten or make haste (with allusion to prec. sense). Only in pl.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 35 Toward your woorkyng ye make such tastingis, As approue you to be none of the hastingis. 1581[see harding]. a1661Fuller Worthies, Sussex (1811) II. 385 Now men commonly say they are none of the Hastings, who, being slow and slack, go about business with no agility. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, You are none of the Hastings, of him that loses an Opportunity..for want of Dispatch. |