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unˈspeedy, a.
[OE. unspédiᵹ (un-1 7), = MDu. onspoedich (Du. -spoedig), OHG. unspuotîg. Cf. wanspeedy a.]
†1. Poor, indigent. (OE. only.) Obs.
c893K. ælfred Oros. i. i. §23 Þa ricostan men drincað myran meolc, & þa unspediᵹan & þa þeowan drincað medo. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 578 He ᵹeendebyrde þone unspediᵹan fiscere ætforan ðam rican casere.
†b. Of land: Barren, unproductive. Obs.—1
a1000Genesis 962 Ᵹesæton þa æfter synne sorᵹfulre land, eard & eðyl unspediᵹran.
†2. Unprofitable; unsuccessful.
a1300E.E. Psalter lxxxviii. 34 Ne wemme mi witeworde, and þat forthga Of mi lippes, vnspedy noght make þa. a1340Hampole Psalter xvi. 14 Make þaim vnspedy and kast þaim down. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvi. 89 The werk ther of schulde be the vnsaueryer and the vnspedier.
3. Slow, sluggish. rare.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 117 The water..passing along with a mute and vnspeedy current. |