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veˈlocious, a. rare.
[f. L. vēlōci-, vēlox swift + -ous.]
Rapid. Also veˈlociously adv.
In quot. 1872 humorously for ‘fast’.
1680C. Nesse Ch. Hist. 357 Satan was seen to fall like lightning from heaven, to wit, viewably, violently, and velociously or swiftly. 1775Romans Florida App. 62 Providing so facile a navigation for the regions of the west, by means of a velocious current. 1872G. W. Dasent Three to One III. 233 They are not at all like some of the young ladies of the present day, ‘velocious,’ as we have heard a Yankee say. |