hasten.
/heɪst/, U.S. /heɪst/ 1.
a. Quickness or speed of motion or action, esp. as prompted by urgency.Recorded earliest in on haste at Phrases 1a. See also to make haste at Phrases 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > urgent
hiec1175
rape?a1300
hastec1300
ragec1400
post-haste1545
post expedition1546
burn1835
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 615 (MED) He sloȝ þer on haste On hundred bi þe laste.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2198 Horse ne hounde for non hast ne miȝt him of-take.
c1375 (?c1280) Birth Jesus (Egerton) l. 368 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 84 (MED) Marie..to þe montaines drow Into a cite of Jude wiþ grete haste inow.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5198 To bidd hast now es nan sa frek.
c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 48 (MED) Þei seyȝe kyngis..passe by hem with grete haast in þe nyȝt.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Oiv I shal do more in a daye than my brother in twayne, for all his hast.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias vii. 17 a They fled, and made away with great hast.
a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. i. 52 About it then, it requires haste, do't well.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ii. 13 The old man would have stayed us here..but our business required more haste.
1731 G. Jeffreys Merope iv. i. 47 The precious Hours Already wasted call for haste.
a1774 O. Goldsmith Ess. xv, in Misc. Wks. (1806) IV. 190 In situations where the action seems to require haste.
1814 H. Busk Fugitive Pieces 230 If despatchful haste thy journey need.
1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors iv. 34 To make him understand the necessity of haste.
1979 D. Lessing Shikasta 36 The need for haste took hold of me again, and mastered my weakness.
1989 Times 2 Aug. 14/5 One supposes..that arms caches, training bases, and hiding places are all being moved with great haste, lest they be bombed.
2003 Jrnl. Caribbean Hist. 37 318 The clerk was not present and business demanded haste.
b. Excessive speed of motion or action; quickness without due consideration or reflection; rashness, hastiness, lack of deliberation.See also in haste at Phrases 1d, and Phrases 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > foolish or reckless
foolhastinessc1390
fool hastea1393
swiftnessa1400
hastec1400
racklenessc1405
headlongness1556
precipitation1572
precipitancy1617
precipitance1629
precipitousnessa1660
precipitateness1671
precipitiousness1672
fool's haste1681
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1503 Bot er harme hem he wolde in haste of his yre, He wayned hem a warnyng.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1605 Greuous to me god wot is youre vnreste Youre haste.
a1500 (?a1475) Guy of Warwick (Cambr. Ff.2.38) l. 794 (MED) Haue therof no haste, syr Gye.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xcix. 320 An yll haste is not good.
1599 L. A. tr. M. Martínez Eighth Bk. Myrror of Knighthood xxx. sig. Oo2v Hee made as if hee feared them, that they might with vnaduised haste follow him.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 55 Hast and choler are enemies to all great actions.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 50 Blind passion, undiscreet engagement, imprudent haste, fool-hardiness.
a1730 A. Blackwall Sacred Classics (1731) II. iii. 217 The first may be ascrib'd to the copyist's haste, negligence, or ignorance.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 725 Friends, not adopted with a schoolboy's haste.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Love thou thy Land in Poems (new ed.) I. 229 Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.
1912 Outlook 15 June 346/2 Could he have gone through ten such weeks on an even keel, without haste, without carelessness?
1957 P. White Voss xi. 346 Such was his haste, he scarcely paused for his due reward.
2017 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 28 Nov. Even seasoned farmers sometimes make mistakes in a moment of haste.
2. Eagerness to do something quickly; pressing need or desire; impatience, urgency.See also in haste at Phrases 1c, Phrases 1e.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste
hiec1175
hightc1225
rapa1250
hyingc1275
rape?a1300
rekec1330
hastiheada1393
pressa1393
hastea1400
unhonea1400
racec1400
gethea1500
festination1541
festinancy1660
hurry1692
festinance1727
scurry1823
rush1849
jildi1890
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 9601 (MED) Ȝyf þou se a chylde yn swyche perel Þat none may saue hyt..Sey þan þus, ȝyf þou haue haste: ‘y crysten þe,’ [etc.].
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 794 This tisbe hat..so gret haste Piramus to se.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 21 Aft[e]r the haste of the lettirs they gaff hem thys answere that they wolde fulfille thy [read the] desire of kyng Arthurs wrytynge.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xciijv These ioly gallantes left behynde theim for hast, all their tentes.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 259 Many halfe dead..were left for hast of winning the fielde.
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis i. 25 Inflam'd with anger, and impatient haste.
1687 J. Williams Papist Represented 9 What is the haste to coast thus up and down the Town?
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 200. ⁋4 The urgent Hast of another Correspondent.
1762 A. E. Dinner in Coll. Orig. Poems Sc. Gentlemen II. 29 With eager haste they hurry on their cloaths.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 295 She advanced, breathless with haste.
1872 J. F. Clarke Self-culture 58 The haste to get rich.
1937 A. J. Cronin Citadel i. x. 84 His haste was desperate, a frantic race against her ebbing strength.
1970 New York 12 Jan. 28/1 Hardy's departure was abrupt enough to suggest a certain urgency, if not ill-tempered haste.
2016 Caribbean Q. 62 272 In our haste to escape, we leapt from our perches.
Phrases
P1. in haste.† b. Soon, presently, shortly. Also occasionally with haste. Obsolete.
a. With energetic speed; quickly, speedily. Hence also in in all haste: as quickly as possible, with all speed.Formerly also † on haste. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French en haste (12th cent.; French en hâte), a haste (12th cent., compare French à la hâte).]
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase]
on fastec1275
as greyhound (let out) of leasha1300
a good (also great, etc.) shake13..
in hastec1300
(wiþ) gret yre13..
in speeda1325
good speeda1400
on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1508
with post1569
on or upon the speed1632
on the run?1679
by the run1787
like a house on fire (also afire)1809
at the double-quick1834
with a run1834
fast and furious1851
at the double1860
at the rate of knots1892
for (or on) the (high) jump1905
like blue murder1914
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase]
in hastec1300
on wheelsc1547
like wildfire1699
like magic1783
like a shot1809
a dose of salts1837
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > moving swiftly in specific manner [phrase] > in or with haste
in hastec1300
whip and spura1500
at (the) post1507
in post1525
in a pelter1861
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 615 (MED) He sloȝ þer on haste On hundred bi þe laste.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3607 Richard prykede forþ an haste, Ase harde as he may þraste.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13402 Þai fild a cupp þan son in hast.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 187 In alle haste, com to me, he sayde.
1518 A. Clifton Let. in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 224 To my ryght wrychypfull brodyre syr harre clyfforthe be thy byll..delyuyryd in haste.
1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 47 Reuenge in haist the cruell act.
1613 W. Adams Let. 1 Dec. in A. Farrington Eng. Factory in Japan (1991) I. 103 Captain John Sarris..sent a lletter unto me in all hast.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 456 Forth rush'd in haste the great consulting Peers. View more context for this quotation
1738 J. Ogilvie tr. R. Menteith Hist. Troubles Great Brit. (ed. 2) v. 206 Bailly..was in all Haste advancing towards the Spey with his Army strong in Horse.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 74 ‘Not dead!’ she answer'd in all haste.
1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) cxvii. 137 Arise, sad heart, arise in haste.
1935 W. H. Ukers All about Tea I. i. 9/1 The good abbot supplemented his prayers with his favourite beverage, sending in all haste to his temple for some of the tea.
1966 Life 5 Aug. 10/8 The boom-or-bust fiction game, where reputations are made in haste and demolished in even more haste.
2014 C. Skidmore Rise of Tudors ii. 67 Warwick's brother..was only a mile away and advancing in haste towards them.
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 667 Wirche wiþ me þi wille, or witterli in hast Mi liif lelly is lorn.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxxvii. 37 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 210 Þair daies waned in vnnaitnesse; And þair yheres with haste ware lesse.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 3321 (MED) Þei in hast shal þe toun possede: Þis was hir hope.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 75 He shall do much more for you, and that shall ye know in haste.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 123 Other kynges..hopit in haste..the mater to here.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. 309 And now faire Phœbus gan decline in haste His weary wagon to the Westerne vale.
1646 in Subtility & Cruelty 58 Provision must be made for the future growing charge, for so much as upon this pretended imbargoe, no Ships would come in haste, and hee and his must bee maintained.
1687 W. Sherlock Vindic. Brief Disc. concerning Notes of Church 21 Though Cardinal Bellarmine makes Unity the Mark of a true Church, yet not the Unity of all Churches with each other, for he knew, there was no such thing in his Days..and I fear not likely to be again in haste.
a1704 T. Brown Epigrams 52 in Wks. (1707) I Hundreds of poor Souls confin'd in That wicked Purgatory The Fleet..and not likely to be pray'd out in haste.
c. With quickness or speed due to pressing need or urgency.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase] > expeditiously
in hastea1513
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxiii. f. clivv/2 She beynge thereof warned departed in haste.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 38/1 One Mystlebrooke..came in greate haste to the hous of one Pottyer.
1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 221 The king leuied an armie in Hast.
1644 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) II. 746 The Parliamentarians were forced to retreat in haste.
1699 S. Garth Dispensary v. 60 In hast a Council's call'd.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 12 Four or five Men running in great hast up the Stairs.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 607 Prepared at any moment to send such as might be demanded in haste.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xvi. 438 An orderly comes in haste to bring him news of the battle.
1919 Country Life 11 Jan. p. xl The need of..new furniture has become urgent and must be supplied in haste.
1987 I. Murdoch Bk. & Brotherhood i. 74 She ran to her bedroom and began cramming things into a suitcase in desperate haste.
2009 New Yorker 10 Aug. 58/1 He returned in haste, saying the train was about to leave.
d. With excessive speed of motion or action; rashly, hastily; hurriedly.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase] > in haste or in a hurry > with undue or rash haste
on headc1425
hand over heada1500
in haste?1518
hot on (also of, in, upon) the spur1577
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. C.ii Attempt nothynge weyghty, in haste nor sodaynly.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxv*. A I sayde in my haist: All men are lyers.
1563 P. Whitehorne tr. Onasander Of Generall Captaine & his Office f. 6 There is not to be comprehended any thinge done vnaduisedly, in haste, at all aduentures, nor rashelye.
1620 S. Denison Monument or Tombe-stone 85 She did not reade the Scripture as many do, in haste, but with serious consideration, application, and meditation.
1677 Duke of Lauderdale in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. lvii. 89 So as they may not trouble us any more in hast.
1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 1 Who has seen so little, and as it were in hast.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 Jan. (2013) 126 I dined to-day with Dr. Cockburn, but will not do so again in haste, he has generally such a parcel of Scots with him.
1791 C. W. Rouse-Boughton Diss. Landed Prop. Bengal 136 They were neither clandestinely delivered, nor hazarded in haste.
1843 Monthly Serial Suppl. to New World Aug. 242/2 A few rash words spoken in haste to take a man of seventy from his sick bed.
1883 Observer 5 Aug. 5/ The discrepancy..between words uttered in haste, and action adopted after grave deliberation.
1958 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. Nov. 1043/3 It will be done in haste, if not in hysteria, and without deep appreciation of the elements of the problem.
2017 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 16 Oct. Decisions made in haste compromise on the principles of justice.
e. As complement of the verb to be: eager to get something done quickly; in a hurry (to do something).Also occasionally with ellipsis of to be, as in quot. 1812.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > with rapid action [phrase] > in haste or in a hurry
in (also on) a resea1400
in haste?1569
on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1655
(all) in a rush1876
all of a whew1905
?1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. vi. f. 79v I am in haste to carry this birde Phœnicopterus.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. iii. 89 Your Fathers call's for you, He is in hast, therefore I pray you go. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Jeamson Artific. Embellishm. i. v. 41 She was in hast to finish a finer peece.
1700 J. Ray Let. 13 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 205 I am in no hast for them, but can well wait your leisure.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. iii. 196 Mary was in no haste to return into Scotland.
1786 Mem. Social Monster 23 Our young hero, being rather in haste for fear of the father's return.
a1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) XII. 287 Though I am always in haste I am never in a hurry.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms iii. 935 No sooner come than in haste to go.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 233/1 There are certain matters, sir, I am in haste to talk over with you.
1918 C. Dawson Glory of Trenches 13 He was in haste to write while the impression was fresh in his mind.
1977 Thomist 41 151 The translator with some premonition of his approaching end was in haste to complete this volume.
2008 Furrow 59 607 The different emphases of Jewish and Catholic traditions is a question we need not be in haste to resolve.
P2.
a. In various proverbs and proverbial sayings indicating that progress is best made by not rushing or hurrying. Frequently in more haste, less speed and variants.
ΚΠ
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §88 The prouerbe seith..in wikked haste is no profit.
a1525 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 1682 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 275 Of fule haist cummis no speid.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiiiv The more haste the lesse spede.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiii Haste maketh waste.
c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 89 Wee do see sum tyms þat þei who do wed and marry in hast hav enoh afterward for to repent þem.
1599 H. Porter Two Angry Women of Abingdon l. 875 There's no hast to hang true men.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia i. 35 Acts done in hast, by leasure are repented.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Aa 195 As if Londoners..aim more at dispatch than Justice, and to make quick Riddance (though no hast to hang true men), acquit half, and condemn half.
1698 J. Kirkwood Plea before Kirk 13 Fools haste is no speed.
1717 D. Turner Syphilis 101 The Patient had best take care he verify not an old Proverb, More Haste, worse Speed.
1791 Universal Asylum & Columbian Mag. July 14 Haste often makes waste. Some lose more by their precipitancy.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xiv. 323 The more haste was emphatically not the better speed.
1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 153 Haste trips up its own heels.
1883 H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Mar. 573/1 She married him in all haste—to repent in all leisure.
1897 E. Phillpotts Lying Prophets 346 [Cornish phrase] More haste, more let.
1923 Walther League Messenger Feb. 292/2 In more than one of these Iowa and Paris weddings, it may be a case of ‘Marry in haste, repent in leisure.’
1985 R. R. Irvine Ratings are Murder v. 44 ‘Haste makes waste,’ Kraut reminded his prop crew. ‘Let's not work ourselves out of a job.’
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 281 Now I'll have to use twice as much proper stuff to get rid of the vile pongo. More haste, less speed, as Nana Vincent used to say.
b. to make haste slowly and variants: to make steady progress while being careful not to rush or hurry. Chiefly imperative, as a proverbial exhortation to do this; cf. to hasten slowly at hasten v. Phrases. [After post-classical Latin festina lente, imperative (see festina lente phr.).]
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [phrase] > without haste > proverbs
festina lente1537
Rome was not built in a day1545
to make haste slowly1565
to hasten slowly1623
steady as she goes1971
1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον ii. iv. f. 77v Accordyng to the prouerbe, festina lentè: make haste slowlye.
1591 P. S. tr. C. Paradin Heroicall Deuises 324 Festina lentè. Make hast but slowly.
1635 W. Scott Ess. Drapery 107 The deliberate man is alwaies ready for a new change, festinat lentè, he makes haste, yet goes slowly.
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 48 It's a saying worthy of Augustus: Festina lentè, make haste slowly.
1744 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 9 Make haste slowly.
1831 Deb. Congr. U.S. 4 Feb. 98 Thus far the committee have ‘made haste slowly’.
1874 Thistleton's Illustr. Jolly Giant 5 Sept. 118/3 Our worthy Coroner should practice this thing of making haste slowly when he is entrusted with the service of a writ.
1938 M. Teagle Murders in Silk iii. 22 Easy, son. Let's make haste slowly. Does Conner know where the knife came from?
1984 J. Reeves Murder before Matins vi. 43 Make haste slowly: not a bad motto for police work.
2017 Gulf News (Nexis) 1 Mar. Let us all make haste slowly, and do what is right.
P3.
a. to make haste: to move or act quickly; to hurry, hasten (to do something). Cf. to make haste slowly at Phrases 2b. Now somewhat archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry > to do something
spake12..
speeda1400
to make haste?a1475
to make speed1548
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (intransitive)] > motion of ball
to make haste?a1475
twist?1801
cut1816
shoot1816
curl1833
hang1838
work1838
break1847
spin1851
turn1851
bump1856
bite1867
pop1871
swerve1894
to kick up1895
nip1899
swing1900
google1907
move1938
seam1960
to play (hit, etc.) across the line1961
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 131 When Cirus..made haste to Babilon the floode of that water callede Eufrates ȝafe resistence to hym.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 6 (MED) The multitude of repreves and euil sayingis that she enforced hirself for to haue shewed owte..lette echon othir, lyke wise as a preese of people that make haste to go owte at a streight wiket.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxxix. [xl.] 13 Make haist (o Lorde) to helpe me.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias vii. 19 b Making hast to the shore, and atteining the same, they ran away.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. i. 53 I make haste, to the casting and comparting of the whole Worke.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 13 One while to march on very slowly, another, to make more haste.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. x. 295 It was necessary for him to make Haste home. View more context for this quotation
1780 S. Crisp Let. 27 July in W. H. Hutton Burford Papers (1905) 39 Be sure You make haste and finish all your trumpery odments.
1834 G. P. R. James Life & Adventures John Marston Hall I. ix. 101 I made as much haste as I could to get away quietly.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 63 Make haste down, and come out.
1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 54 I made haste to go to the cook-room.
1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner (1960) 106 ‘But not just yet... I'm not ready.’ ‘Well, then, you had better make haste and be ready.’
1985 S. Penman Here be Dragons i. v. 60 The woods offered no refuge, only shafted death, and he shouted, ‘Make haste for the castle!’
2013 B. Mullins Becoming Big League iv. 57 American League owners were making haste to be sure they had secured the prize.
b. Cricket. to make haste off (also from) the pitch: (of a delivery) to reach the batter with unexpected speed after pitching; (also occasionally of a bowler) to produce a delivery which reaches the batter with unexpected speed after pitching. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 123 Every now and then one of their balls will, in cricket slang, ‘make haste from the pitch’.
1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes ix. 177 The ball made haste off the pitch, kept a little low, and clean beat Duff.
1920 P. F. Warner Cricket Reminisc. ii. 19 Australia, where the bowler who makes haste off the pitch is the most useful type.
1991 Times of India 15 Dec. 19/2 Tanna went back instead of forward and found the ball making haste off the pitch.
Compounds
Objective and instrumental, as haste-maker, haste-making, etc.; haste-loving, haste-ridden, etc., adjectives.
ΚΠ
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Haste maker, accelerator.
1576 A. Fleming tr. in Panoplie Epist. 262 Festination or hast making.
1653 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Other 50 Psalmes 70 The successe must be without haste making.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude xi. 221 There is no occasion for being excessively emulous, or haste-bitten.
1904 Literary World Mar. 75/1 His soul..has rushed into his haste-driven fingers.
1928 J. M. Chapple To Bagdad & Back x. 122 The haste-loving Americans who were trying to cut down the time ordinarily required to see the various points of interest.
2018 T. Skouen Value of Time in Early Mod. Eng. Lit. ii. 58 Pope also criticizes Dryden's sporadic and haste-ridden attempts to translate Homer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
hastev.
/heɪst/, U.S. /heɪst/ 1.
a. intransitive. To make haste; to act quickly; to hurry or to be quick (to do something); to come or go quickly. Also of time or events: to approach or come on rapidly.In later use often literary, poetic, or nonstandard, replaced in ordinary use by hasten (see hasten v. 1).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed
rempeOE
fuseOE
rakeOE
hiec1175
i-fusec1275
rekec1275
hastec1300
pellc1300
platc1300
startc1300
buskc1330
rapc1330
rapec1330
skip1338
firk1340
chase1377
raikc1390
to hie one's waya1400
catchc1400
start?a1505
spur1513
hasten1534
to make speed1548
post1553
hurry1602
scud1602
curry1608
to put on?1611
properate1623
post-haste1628
whirryc1630
dust1650
kite1854
to get a move on1888
to hump it1888
belt1890
to get (or put) one's skates on1895
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to rattle one's dags1968
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c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 332 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 116 And euere ȝwane he Masse song..he hastede euere þare-with faste.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 1084 My soule is..in anguisse, to þe deþe hastyng anon.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 2837 ‘Haste,’ he said, ‘þan þeder yaar’.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 112 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 112 Þe seknes na remed ma haf, bot hastis to þe dede.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cxxxi/1 All suche as he sent vnto obeyed and hasted to come to him.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 236 If the reward were good, he would hast to gaine more.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iii. §18. 563 Hee hasted away towards Vtica.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 867 O friends, I hear the tread of nimble feet Hasting this way. View more context for this quotation
1699 J. Flavell Method of Grace bringing home Redempt. 61 A day is hasting when God will treat with you no more.
1712 A. Pope Messiah in Spectator No. 348 See Nature hastes her earliest Wreaths to bring.
1788 New Lady's Mag. Sept. 489/2 To court he hastes.
1820 Cap of Liberty I. 158 The day is hasting on, when the projectors, and dastardly perpetrators, of the foul murders..will receive ample punishment.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. i. 11 The hour is hasting but too fast.
1877 A. H. Beesly Gracchi, Marius & Sulla iv. 77 As they hasted to strip him, some tore the clothes off his back.
1923 Humorist 17 Nov. 408/1 I filled the big kettle and set it on the stove, then hasted to the toon.
1961 E. Wilson Night Thoughts 51 It moans, and moaning swells, and howling hastes away.
2017 @PeterGCoenen 26 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) That moment you're hasting to college because you think you're late, but you have the first hour off.
b. transitive (reflexive) in same sense. Now chiefly archaic and regional (chiefly Scottish).Frequently in imperative use; see also haste ye (also thee) back at Phrases.
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c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) l. 1746 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 58 Go þov a non and haste þe And do bringuen..þe stenene.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 174 Mochel ssolde he by fol bote yef he him hastede te habbe hit ayen... Ha ssel him hasti to ssriue.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5018 Yee most yow hast on your fare.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 152 (MED) To myn heyȝ hallys I haste me in my way.
a1500 (c1380) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 469 Þey shulden..haaste hem to make aseeþ.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxl. [cxli.] 1 Lorde, I call vpon the: haist the vnto me.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 550 I will not haist me ane fute faster on the way.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 104 Hast thee, and from the Paradise of God..drive out the sinful Pair. View more context for this quotation
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace iv. iv. 64 Then hastes him to his Men he left behind.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 226/2 Get away wi' your frightened looks, woman; an' haste ye, gang an' fling me out my Sabbath-day claes.
1832 Imperial Mag. Mar. 136/2 I'll..haste me o'er this desert ground.
1869 J. R. Lowell Under Willows & Other Poems 224 I look and long, then haste me home.
1894 A. S. Roberson Provost o' Glendookie 49 Leezbeth, heest ye an' get tea ready.
1929 M. Walsh Small Dark Man i. 22 Haste ye, but cannily, for it's a chancy place and night comin' on.
1976 Guardian 30 Mar. 12/5 I hasted me away As soon as Denis took his daggers back.
2002 I. Sandison Tree Peerie Grice (SCOTS) Haste dee an bolt da door!
2. transitive. To cause to move more quickly; to urge, drive, press on; to quicken, accelerate, hurry. Now rare (chiefly literary and poetic in later use).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move or cause to move swiftly in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > direct (one's way or steps) with haste > cause to move with haste
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c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 1847 Princes doukes erl and kniȝt Priked her stedes ariȝt It was no nede hem to hast Ac so quarel of alblast Þai flowen þider.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. iii. 140 Drynes hastiþ elde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26737 Hast noght þi scrift on þiskin wis.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 16 (MED) Þat our Lord schuld hast þis mater & make brith þe þirknesse of Augustines soule.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lix. 206 They were so hastyd and pursewyd.
a1558 R. Best in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 324 The time of the yeere hasting the profection and departure of the Ambassadour.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. i. 73 Let's hence, And with our faire intreaties hast them on. View more context for this quotation
1673 R. Honywood tr. B. Nani Hist. Republick of Venice iii. 116 The Insurrections in Bohemia required to haste the Troops thither.
1737 J. B. Pescetti Demetrius ii. x. 36 Sorrow hastes us on to death.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 167 Thou..just thy step a wee thing hastet.
1842 Court, Lady's Mag. Feb. 129 The winds in Etna's womb, Which by suppression hastes the fiery doom.
1904 Methodist Rev. July 42 The name itself..hastes me to the hill.
1957 G. Overmyer America's First Hamlet i. v. 60 Maria..hastes the happy ending.
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Scottish. haste ye (also thee) back: used (now esp. in a consciously archaic way) as an invitation to come back soon, or as a general expression of good wishes or affection on parting.
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?1770 Logie o' Buchan in Colin & Phœbe's Garland 7 Then haste thee back [1776 haste ye back] Jemmy and bide not awa'.
1897 ‘G. Setoun’ George Malcolm iii. 35 Guid nicht, guid nicht, an' haste ye back.
1946 A. Street Land Eng. People iii. 27 ‘Heeste ye beck!’ says the Aberdeen house-wife as she bids a guest farewell.
1958 Scots Mag. Apr. 6/1 Every window was thrown up, every doorway filled, and voices called, ‘Haste ye back noo! See ye next year!’
2018 Sc. Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Feb. 16 The first official visit of Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle to Scotland has been a huge success... What more is there to say except: Haste ye back.
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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv The serpentes twine with hasted traile they glide To Pallas temple.
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. H 1v Running with hasted steps to the louely leader of that beautious troupe of angel-faced boyes.
1680 J. Wilmot Poems Several Occasions 36 From bawdy Bath, he flies, To put in Act his hasted enterprise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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