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apace, adv.|əˈpeɪs|
Forms: 4–5 apaas, apas, 4–6 apase, 4– apace.
[orig. phr. a pace, like afoot, ahead, f. a prep.1 of manner + pace, formerly pas, paas.]
lit. At a pace, i.e. at a considerable or good pace; hence, With speed; swiftly, quickly, fast. a. orig. of the pace of men.
c1350Rom. Athelston in Rel. Ant. II. 98 Thorwȝout he went a pase. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 465 He cometh to hym apaas. c1400Rom. Rose 3724 To Bialacoil she wente apas. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Gal. v. 7 Ye dyd once runne apace, makyng hastye spede. 1611Bible Ps. lxviii. 12 Kings of armies did flee apace. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1858) 486 They are coming towards us too, apace. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. xiv. (1871) 67 He..pushed on apace.
b. of motion generally, as flowing, gliding, sailing, flying; and hence of the flight of time.
1535Coverdale Ps. lviii. 6 Like water yt runneth a pace. ― Jer. xlviii. 14 The destruction off Moab commeth on a pace. 1665Manley Grotius's Low-C. Wars 101 Autumn now coming on apace. 1702Pope Jan. & May 783 The ready tears apace began to flow. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 35 Around before the squall she veers apace. 1813Scott Trierm. i. xx, With lay and tale, and laugh, and jest, Apace the evening flew. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 260 The news..reached Rome apace.
c. of speed or progress in any action.
a1423James I King's Q. iv. viii, The werk that first is foundit sure May better bere apace. 1530Palsgr. 418 Thought maketh men age a pace. 1550Crowley Epigr. 1020 Good Esay doeth cursse them apase. 1604Rowlands Looke to it 8 Hoording wealth apace. 1611Cotgr., s.v. Herbe, An ill weed growes apace. 1628Digby Voy. Medit. 9 My men begun to sicken apace. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. 16 It rained a-pace. 1800Wellington in Gurwood Disp. I. 192 Dhoondiah's followers are quitting him apace. 1829Southey All for Love iii. Wks. VII. 166 The church Already fills apace. 1841Miss Sedgwick Lett. fr. Abr. I. 24 Our friendship ripens apace.
†d. of quickness in proceeding to act: At once, immediately. Obs.
c1325Cœur de L. 4041 Now leth in pes, lystenes apas! 1553A. Wilson Rhet. 15 b, We hang theim a pace that offend a lawe. 1723S. Centlivre Stolen Heiress v. 371 Do not push me from thee..For I shall die apace, and go before. |