单词 | hasting |
释义 | hastingn.1 Now nonstandard and rare (often literary or poetic in later use). The action of haste v. (in various senses); hastening, speeding; acceleration. Also (and earliest) in † in (also with) hasting: hastily, speedily (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > urgent > moving with urgent speed hastingc1300 posting1589 c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) l. 1590 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 53 (MED) Þo Josep was comen in hastingue. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 287 (MED) Herodes..was i-tormented wiþ ycchynge..wiþ stynkynge and blowynge and greet hastynge of breeþ. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. iv. 346 The cause of hastinge of Manasse his heed [read deeþ]. c1425 (?a1400) Arthur (Longleat 55) l. 377 (MED) Bedwer wyþ all hastynge Tolde Arthour all þis þynge. a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 2232 He wyll theder wyth great hastynge [c1330 Auch. hiȝing]. ?1556 (a1500) Knight of Curtesy (Copland) sig. a.ii He praieth you in all hastynge To come in his court for to dwell. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 281 Commaunders entred into consultation, for the hasting of their returne. 1651 J. Wenthrop Let. 13 May in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony Connecticut (1850) I. 222 Some occasions..require my hasting into the Bay. 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Lightness, the want of weight, which causes the hasting of a body upwards. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. viii. 204 Notwithstanding their hasting to compose their countenances to a different expression. 1873 F. W. Upham Star of our Lord viii. 288 In their hasting from Jerusalem undoubting faith instantly passed into corresponding action. 1909 D. B. Shumway tr. Nibelungenlied xxvii. 223 Much hasting over the plain was done by Rüdeger's friends. 2003 Tri-State Defender (Memphis, Tennessee) (Electronic ed.) 19 Mar. Pray without ceasing and invoke the hasting of God's purposes in this matter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hastingn.2adj. A. n.2 ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > one who is rapid or makes rapid progress hasting1546 fire-eater1841 fast timer1881 rattler1886 sprinter1899 fast worker1917 swiftie1945 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xii. sig. Eiiv Toward your work..ye make such tastings As approue you to be none of the hastyngs. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions iv. 19 Ripenes in children, is not tyed to one time, no more then all corne is ripe for one reaping... Some be hastinges and will on, some be hardinges, and drawe backe. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Sussex 100 Now men commonly say they are none of the Hastings, who, being slow and slack, go about business with no agility. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew You are none of the Hastings, of him that loses an Opportunity..for want of Dispatch. 1787 F. Grose Local Prov. in Provinc. Gloss. sig. R5v He is none of the hastings, said of a dull sluggish messenger. 1894 All Year Round 24 Nov. 499/2 ‘He is none of the Hastings’ is spoken of a slow person in Leicestershire. 2. Originally: a variety of fruit or vegetable that ripens, matures, or comes into growth early in the growing season. In later use: spec. (more fully green hasting, white hasting) either of two early-ripening varieties of pea, Pisum sativum; garden peas or a garden pea. Also attributive, frequently with the first element in plural form, as hastings pea, hastings pear; cf. sense B. 2. Now historical and rare.Earlier currency is probably implied by the apparent figurative allusion to this sense at sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [noun] > early ripening hasting1573 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20v Sow Haestings now, if ground it allow. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 101/2 Ficus præcox. Figue hastive. A rathe fig ripened before the time: an hasting. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlix. 537 Garden, tender and delicate peares, such as are the..hasting, rimolt, mollart, greening, butter peare [etc.]. 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 522 The kindes of Pease are these: The Rounciuall. The greene Hasting. The Sugar Pease... The white Hasting. 1689 S. Sewall Diary 4 June (1973) I. 219 Green Hastings, i.e. Pease, are cry'd at 6d a Peck, in little carts. 1712 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (ed. 3) xiii. i. 439 The large white and green Hastings are tender, and not to be set till the cold is over. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 73 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Common Cryers..persuade People to buy their Oysters, green Hastings, or new Ballads. 1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees vii. 81 The Green Chissel, or Hastings Pear,..always remains green, and is full of juice when ripe. 1813 J. Headrick Gen. View Agric. Angus 311 The Hastings pea is preferred, whose straw is more valuable than that of the common late pea. 1878 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 14 190/2 A day or two since I heard the cry, ‘Green Hastings!’..fifty years ago, it was the usual cry for green peas. 2012 W. Greene Veg. Gardening i. 8/2 The ‘Hastings’ pea appeared in the historic record in the 15th century as the first recognizable green pea (P[isum] sativum var. sativum). Like all peas eaten in the green stage, it bore white flowers. B. adj. 1. That hastens; speeding. Now literary and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] hiefulc1230 hastyc1330 swift1340 graithfula1400 yedera1400 short1480 speedy1529 expedite1540 quick1548 postingc1553 hasting1566 rushing1694 nimble1707 presto1767 presto change1835 quick-action1887 presto changeo1923 knife-edge1969 light speed1987 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with urgent speed hastening1545 hasting1566 hot-footed1844 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. F.ij Thou doste trace the hastyng hare. 1645 J. Milton Sonnet vii, in Poems 49 My hasting dayes flie on with full career. 1698 Man. of Devotions 124 I..may lift up my head with Joy at my hasting Dissolution. 1848 Graham's Mag. Feb. 127/1 You'd hear his hasting step go by. 1870 R. W. Emerson Plutarch in Wks. (1906) III. 343 To keep up with the hasting history. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 144 Chris loitered on the road in the tail of the hasting scholars. 1969 Country Life 4 Dec. 1533/1 Even in this hasting era, a picture of the squire snoozing..or peasants taking their noonday rest..have a sedative effect. 2005 B. Berkenfield Driving Toward Moon 25 She comes from behind To meet my hasting feet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [adjective] > early ripening hasty1338 untimely1535 hasting1578 horary1620 hastive1724 the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > ripe or ripened > ripening or becoming ripe > ripening or flowering early hasty1338 before-ripea1382 precoquea1398 premature?1440 rathe1572 hasting1578 rathe-ripe1578 precocious1650 precoce1658 rareripe1678 hastive1724 force-ripe1830 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxv. 52 The huskes be..like a great hasting or garden pease. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hastiveau..a hasting apple, or peare. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. xiv. 167 These Banks or Slopes are very useful..for producing Early and Hasting Peas. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 243 How to raise hasting Strawberries. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Hasting Pear,..It ripens in July. 1804 Farmer's Mag. 5 18 I tried this year a species of Hasting pea, but for which I have no name. 1928 U. P. Hedrick et al. Veg. N.Y.: Peas iii. 35/1 Parkinson's Hasting pea is excluded from consideration, by its lack of hardiness, as ancestor of either the Extra Earlies or the Marrowfats, since both stand cold well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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