hastyadj.adv.n.
/ˈheɪsti/, U.S. /ˈheɪsti/ A. adj.† 2. That ripens, matures, or comes into growth early in the growing season; = early adj. 3. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Cf. hasting adj. 2, hastive adj. 3b. Obsolete.† 5. Strong and powerful, violent; intense. Obsolete.† 6. Eager or impatient (to do something); ready, willing. Cf. quick adj. 21. Obsolete.
1.
a. Speedy, quick; swift in motion or action; (also) sudden. Now archaic and rare, except as passing into A. 1b.See also in hasty time at time n., int., and conj. Phrases 3k(b)(ii).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective]
swiftc888
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currentc1300
quickc1300
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swiftyc1380
speedfula1387
fasta1400
swippingc1420
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fleet1528
tite?a1540
scudding1545
flighty1552
suddenly1556
flight1581
feathered1587
Pegasean1590
wing-footed1591
swift-winged?1592
thought-swift-flying1595
wind-winged?1596
swallow-winged1597
Pegasarian1607
skelping1607
rapid1608
night-swifta1616
celerious1632
clipping1635
perniciousa1656
volatile1655
quick-foot1658
meteorous1667
windy1697
high-flying1710
fleet-footed1726
aliped1727
wickc1760
velocious1775
flight-performing1785
fast-going1800
fast-moving1802
meteor1803
wight-wapping1830
fleety1841
speeding1847
swiftening1848
two-forty1855
fire-swift1865
pennate1870
spinning1882
percursory1884
zippy1889
meteoric1895
pacy1906
presto1952
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
c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) l. 1213 in PMLA (1931) 46 132/1 Þe salmoun þat liþe here To bischop milit þou it bere And say þarf him nouȝt hasty Westeminster chirche to halwey.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxviii. 1171 And þerfore it nedeþ þat kynde be hasty and spedful in suche bestes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5324 Þe kynge lete write lettres..wiþ hasty fare.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 1548 (MED) Þai may takens be Of gret hasty myscheves..Þat tyll þe world er nere command.
1465 J. Rising in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 309 Lete me haue word in as hasty tyme as ye may.
a1500 Gospel of Nicodemus (Harl. 149) (1974) 99 Ther came amonge vs an hasty heete of the sonne.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aiv This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. B ij Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 376 A Horsse may haue shortnesse of breath, by hasty running after drinking.
1650 J. Milton Tenure of Kings (ed. 2) 59 We..wish hasty ruin..to all Tyrants.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 54 When impetuous Rain Swells hasty Brooks. View more context for this quotation
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 198 A very smart and hasty Rain.
1770–4 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1803) I. 24 The dung of pigeons is a rich and hasty manure.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 23 The sportive toil..Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow.
1886 S. R. Crockett Dulce Cor 115 Beneath, the hasty river brawls.
1909 H. Caine White Prophet ii. i. 145 At the next moment there were three hasty beats on the General's bell.
1978 F. Mann Acupuncture (ed. 3) ix. 149 The movement of the pulse is sudden and hasty.
b. Speedy or quick on account of having little time; hurried 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 > [adjective] > acting with haste > hasty or hurried
hastivea1325
raplyc1390
runninga1400
rapec1410
precipitate1545
hasty1560
abrupt1576
festinate1598
breathless1606
hasteful1610
precipitatedc1625
arreptitious1653
hurried1667
prerupt1727
hurry-scurry1732
rush1879
rushed1888
scampered1894
rush-round1903
rushy1976
drive-by1992
1560 J. Knox Answer Great Nomber Blasphemous Cauillations 426 In this turmoil, and hastie flight, many women were deliuered before their time.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons sig. 5v A hastie retraite.
1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes ii. sig. C4v Ionah straight arose, himself bedight With fit accoutrements, for hasty flight.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xlvii A..hasty Piece of Painting done by a great Hand is of great Value.
1746 G. Berkeley Let. 20 May in Wks. (1871) IV. 317. I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry.
1751 T. Gray Elegy xxv. 10 Brushing with hasty steps the dews away.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 113 Aberdovey, of which I made a hasty common-ink sketch.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. i. 9 [He] had scarcely..time to cast a hasty glance at the novel circumstances around him.
1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 225 Rasselas..is ill calculated for the hasty readers of to-day.
1913 S. R. Capps Yenta District 11 Time was available only for a hasty investigation of the conditions.
1985 R. Huntford Shackleton lv. 684 Shackleton had brought her on a hasty visit.
2010 P. Daniels Class Actor xxxi. 207 Things got very nasty very quickly, and..we had to beat a hasty retreat out of the toilet window.
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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
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rathe-ripe1578
precocious1650
precoce1658
rareripe1678
hastive1724
force-ripe1830
1338 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 13 [Of barley or] hastybere [half a quarter]... [Half a quarter of barley or] hastyber.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 228 Hastybere, corne, trimensis.
a1500 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 761 (MED) Hasty ffrutus haue no longe resydens; Ryght feyre outward, þe coore doth putrifye.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viii But I speke nat of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmas.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxviii. 4 As the hastie fruite before the summer. View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §422 How to make the Trees..more Hastie and Sudden, than they vse to be.
1650 A. Bradstreet Tenth Muse 58 For fruits, my season yeelds, the early Cherry, The hasty Pease, and wholesome red Strawberry.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. vi. 131 Hasty, or Forward-Cherries.
a1707 G. Stepney To Earl of Carlisle in S. Johnson Wks. Eng. Poets (1779) XII. 259 So hasty fruits, and too ambitious flowers, Scorning the midwifery of ripening showers,..spring from th' unwilling earth.
1853 Gardeners' Chron. & Agric. Gaz. 5 Mar. 155/2 The Cole has even outstripped the hasty Wheat.
1866 tr. G. G. Gervinus Introd. Hist. Nineteenth Cent. iv. 106 But even when the first hasty fruits of the revolution prematurely fell from the tree, they scattered abroad its seed over France.
3.
a. Of a person or a person's disposition: quickly roused to anger; quick-tempered, irritable.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)
hotOE
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angrya1387
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iracundiousa1492
passionatea1500
fumish1523
irascible1530
wrothful1535
fierya1540
warm1547
choleric1556
hot at hand1558
waspish1566
incensive1570
bilious1571
splenative1593
hot-livered1599
short1599
spitfire1600
warm-tempered1605
temperless1614
sulphurous1616
angryable1662
huffy1680
hastish1749
peppery1778
quick-tempered1792
inflammable1800
hair-triggered1806
gingery1807
spunky1809
iracund1821
irascid1823
wrathy1828
frenzy1859
gunpowdery1868
gunpowderous1870
tempersome1875
exacerbescent1889
tempery1905
lightningy1906
temperish1925
short-fused1979
a1350 Short Metrical Chron. (Rawl.) l. 409 in PMLA (1931) 46 147/2 Þe kyng was hasty & sterte vp, And hent þe þefe by þe toppe.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 2561 (MED) Hasti Pirrus gan his swerd oute drawe.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiv. l. 290 (MED) Seraphe to him was ful hasty, & there so him hitte vppon the hed That his body he toclaf.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. av Testinesse or impaciency, is a fraile & hasty disposicion, or rather acustomed & vsed vyce of angre.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 315/1 Hastye, disposed to be angry.
1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta ii. i. in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. N.ivv Whose hastie heartes some angrie moode had moued.
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xiv. 29 Hee that is hasty of spirit, exalteth folly. View more context for this quotation
1687 W. Hope Scots Fencing-master vi. 155 A Man when he is engaged for his Life against one who is of a..Hasty, or Passionate Humour, should yield a little Ground to him.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 45 The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric.
1821 Q. Rev. Apr. 153 A man who, though hasty in his temper and worldly in his principles, was at bottom honest.
1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 129 Do you suppose I do not know myself to be hasty and irritable?
1937 Spectator 8 Oct. 576/2 If a man who is no bully is sometimes irritable, hasty or prejudiced he is only human.
1972 Q. Bell Virginia Woolf I. ii. 26 In dealing with her own children she had a hasty temper.
2011 G. Picken Spiritual Purification in Islam i. 16 He was determined, forceful and on occasion hasty and ill-tempered.
b. Of words: spoken in sudden anger or irritation; (of an action) done in sudden anger or irritation.
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c1375 (?c1280) Birth Jesus (Egerton) l. 978 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 103 Eroudes..Defoulede þe schipes of thars wiþ wel hasti rede.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xliii. 143 Be not dyspleasyd yf I spake eny hasty worde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xiv. D Wrath and haistie displeasure.
1575 J. Cox tr. H. Bullinger Exhort. to Ministers of Gods Woord 382 They must also forbeare them, and suffer their angrie and hastie words.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 306 The weaker in disputation..descended from hote words, to hastie blowes.
1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces iv. 134 A Race of people..not dealt with by hasty words, but managed easily by soft and fair.
a1748 J. Thomson Coriolanus (1749) v. ii. 54 My rash Hand should do a hasty Deed My cooler Thought forbids.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 22 Some were sent to prison for hasty words, to which the smart of injury excited them.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. v. 64 Guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words.
1927 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 40/1 He could never be sure of not saying hasty things when he was in a ‘rubbed’ temper.
1961 San Antonio (Texas) Express 10 Jan. 2 b/4 Be wary of annoyance, hasty deeds.
2012 Daily Star (Nexis) 9 June 30 Control irritability and avoid hasty words early in the week.
4. Characterized by excessive speed or urgency; rash; lacking sufficient care, consideration, or forethought.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > foolishly or recklessly
hastivec1300
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foolhastya1393
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properant1531
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proclive1609
precipitious1612
precipitous1646
precipitating1681
ram-stam1786
precipit1922
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 475 Þan has my hasty hert holly þe wrong.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 3190 Ȝif Thoas..Shal nowe be ded þoruȝ hasty Iugement.
c1450 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 283 I haue harde..That haste mene sholde wante no woo.
c1475 Proverbs (Rawl. D.328) in Mod. Philol. (1940) 38 117 A hasty man lackyth neuer owye.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 44 Hastie and furious of heart, and vnware of perilles.
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. F. Le Petit Gen. Hist. Netherlands xi. 755 Berenbroek..willed them not to be too hastie, but to worke wisely and securely.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxvii. 237 Aptitude..to give too hasty beleefe to pretended Miracles.
1705 D. Defoe Rev. Affairs France II. 394/1 Unmarrying the Unhappy, and dissolving hasty Wedlock.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 5 I..will not be hasty in my decisions.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 505 He has been led into many hasty assertions.
1876 Hardwicke's Sci. Gossip 12 31/2 Erroneous statements and hasty generalizations should not be put forward by any one professing to be a scientific man.
1931 ‘E. Queen’ Dutch Shoe Myst. xviii. 168 I'd rather see you men go easy and make no mistakes than be hasty.
1984 A. Thwaite Edmund Gosse iii. 86 Philip..cautioned him not to be hasty in committing himself.
2010 Asian Woman No. 43. 181/1 Do not make any hasty decisions where finances are concerned.
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c1375 (?c1280) Birth Jesus (Egerton) l. 975 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1875) 1st Ser. 103 And deol foliche þe schipes of thars wiþ wel hasti breþe.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 63v (MED) Be þai swed with comon suture, or of skynnerez when þe flux is impetuous i. hasty [?c1425 Paris when þer is strong bledynge].
?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. at Hasti(e When yt begynnythe to boille tak out the pot stik..and let not the fyere be to hasty.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. ix. 92 The sleayng of a man..somewhat cooled the hastie flame of the hoate Pilgrimage.
1603 A. Willet Ecclesia Triumphans xix. 112 As hastie raines doe wash and carrie away the tilth of the land.
1748 W. Brownrigg Art of making Common Salt ii. ii. 70 When they use too hasty fires, large quantities of salt often adhere to the bottom of the pan.
1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 284 This [rain] and some other hasty rains afterwards hurt the meadow grass, by flooding it three times.
1881 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Oct. 344/1 Place your saucepan on a not too hasty fire.
1901 A. Bubb in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 80/1 [Gloucestershire] What hasty rain.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > in a hurry or hastening eagerly
hastya1387
battea1475
hastening1545
hot on (also of, in, upon) the spur1577
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 269 (MED) As Galli beþ wel hasty þan strong in þe firste rees, soo afterward þey beeþ in fiȝtynge more feble þan wommen.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. clxvii. 820 Gascoignes ben liȝt and plyant of body, hardy and bolde of hert, fers and hasty to bataylle.
a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 98 Som crien & whinen in þeire þrote, so ben þei gredy & hasty [a1500 Harl. 2373 haste] to sey þat þei þink.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 62 No wise woman aught to be hasty to take upon the new noualitees of array.
c1480 (a1400) St. Euphemia 70 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 419 His hasty lykine til fulfil.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvi. 227 How is it that ye be so hasty to departe?
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 540 The Duke of Bedford, was so hastie to geue him battaile.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 190 Is he so hastie, that he doth suppose my sleepe my death? View more context for this quotation
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. H2v The Queene is not so hasty of your death.
1653 Cloria & Narcissus 145 The marriners were hasty to conduct the ship to a safe harbour.
1754 S. Foote Knights ii. 42 'Tis partly to prevent bad Consequences that I am..so hasty to match him.
7. Requiring haste or speed; urgent. Also: quickly or hastily made or prepared. Cf. hasty pudding n.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > requiring haste
hastyc1400
hurry-up1893
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > cooked > cooked in haste
hastyc1400
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1051 (MED) A heȝe ernde & a hasty me hade fro þo wonez.
?a1425 (?c1350) Northern Passion (Rawl.) l. 2729 (MED) I may noght bere it bi þis day, And hasty thinges I haue to do, So þat I may noght tent þare-to.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 3691 (MED) And hasty cas..Redresse requereth by ful short avys.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 184 Sommer Hony, or hasty Hony, made in thirty dayes after the tenth of Iune.
1618 T. Thompson Antichrist Arraigned 25 For concerning hastie wealth, howsoeuer it bee gotten, Salomons sentence is most sure.
1676 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia (new ed.) 90 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) He [sc. Columbus] built a hasty Fort with wood and earth.
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. No. 215 Hasty Cream. Take a Gallon of Milk warm from the Cow, set it on the Fire... Skim all the Cream from off of it.
1742 P. Francis tr. Horace Epist. i. xvi. 91 To purchase hasty wealth.
1780 S. J. Pratt Emma Corbett III. cxxvi. 92 These hands..prepared an hasty grave for the reliques of your son.
1841 Citizen Sept. 120/1 They..threw up a hasty fence of earth and timber.
1883 Cassell's Dict. Cookery Hasty Puff.
1934 N.Y. Hist. 15 398 Sow a crop and build a hasty cabin.
1972 New World Encycl. Cooking 614/1 Hasty Chocolate Caramels Set out a candy thermometer. Butter an 8-in. square pan.
2004 Express (Nexis) 8 July 9 Royal Parks staff had to erect a hasty barrier around the flooded area.
Hastily; quickly, rapidly; (also) soon, shortly. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > quickly or promptly
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
radlyOE
yareOE
timelyOE
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hastyfullyc1500
snackly1728
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snaply1768
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1835
pronto1892
quick smart1955
snappily1981
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] > soon or quickly
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cofeOE
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bumbye1727
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adverb] > swiftly and urgently
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hastefully1813
?a1425 (?1373) Lelamour Herbal (1938) f. 3 (MED) Yf one drinke þe juis in wyne hit distroyeth all maner of venym..and bryngeþ oute the hastier borthen of a woman.
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees (Sloane 2464) l. 847 (MED) That discrecyoun As lady Sovereyne With Resoun present At good leyseer tabyde, That hasty wyl medle on nouthir syde.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 42 Mercurius,..quhilk makkis reuolutione, nyne dais mair haistiar nor dois Venus,..is ay sene befor the soune rysing and haisty eftir that the soune is cum to the vest orizon.
1568 G. Turberville tr. D. Mancinus Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue sig. G.iiijv Do not with too quicke a foote or pace too hastie goe.
C. n.
Scottish (chiefly Caithness). A disease of cattle with a high mortality rate (not identified; perhaps tetanus, rabies, or foot-and-mouth disease). rare. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > murrain
orf-qualmOE
murraina1382
hasty1683
rinderpest1828
steppe-murrain1865
cattle-plague1866
1683 M. Mackaile Let. 5 Mar. in W. Macfarlane et al. Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1908) III. 13 The Beasts in Cathness are often troubled with a Disease which the people there call the Heastie, because it putteth them in a rage and killeth them suddenly.
1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness 200 The most formidable of these distempers is called the murrain, (provincially, hasty), because the animal dies soon after it is seized with it.
1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Sutherland 100 The disease called murrain or heasty, prevailed among the black cattle of this county when the valleys were covered with wood.
1921 Old-Lore Misc. Orkney, Shetland, Caithness & Sutherland IX. i. 19 A much more elaborate performance had to be resorted to in dealing with ‘murrain’ or ‘heasty’, as it was called in Caithness in olden times.
1978 B. Le Roy Lairds, Bards, & Mariners viii. 46 ‘Curing the murrain’, a distemper in cattle, sometimes called ‘the hasty’, since the cattle died very soon after being attacked by it, could be accomplished by ‘a need-fire’.
Compounds
Forming parasynthetic adjectives.
hasty-footed adj.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 201 We haue chid the hastie footed time, For parting vs. View more context for this quotation
1772 J. Spencer Hermas I. iii. 67 For ever blest time's hasty-footed speed.
1911 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 2 Sept. 21/2 One who can..beat out some hasty footed back on the other team.
2001 Africa News (Nexis) 2 Apr. Sensing danger, the hasty-footed soldiers scattered and fled.
hasty-minded adj.
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1605 E. Askew Brotherly Reconcilem. 86 Long-suffering toward the hasti-minded man.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I Hasty minded, fervens animi.
1908 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 555/2 She wore an aspect of being hasty-minded.
2015 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 14 June d4/5 Their lyrics..were a lesson to hasty-minded lovers.
hasty-tempered n.
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1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. ii. 12 The step which would be wonder'd at from such an hasty-temper'd creature as me, would be inexcusable in such a considerate person as you.
1878 Fraser's Mag. June 749/1 All the Wollstonecraft sisters were enthusiastic, excitable, and hasty tempered.
1948 Illustr. London News 2 Oct. 374/3 Like other hasty-tempered commanders, he acquired a reputation for sacking subordinate leaders.
2005 N. Gaiman Anansi Boys (2008) ii. 37 The shopkeeper is a very hasty-tempered man.
hasty-witted adj.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 42 An hastie witted bodie. View more context for this quotation
1892 London Q. Rev. Oct. 12 One hasty-witted member shouting, ‘I smell gunpowder!’
2008 J. Rock Knight Most Wicked i. 13 He could fight better than half of Richard's hasty-witted front line.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
hastyv.
/ˈheɪsti/, U.S. /ˈheɪsti/, Scottish English /ˈhestɪ/ Scottish in later use. Now rare.
intransitive. To make haste; to act quickly; = hasten v. 1. Also transitive: to cause to move more quickly; to quicken; = hasten v. 2a. Sc. National Dict. (at Hastie) records the word as still current in Aberdeenshire in 1956.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry
hiec1250
skelta1400
hasty?a1425
hasten1534
festinate1652
to look sharp1680
to make play1799
hurry-scurry1809
to tumble up1826
crowd1838
rush1859
hurry1871
to get a move on1888
hurry and scurry1889
to buck up1890
to get a hump on1892
to get a wiggle on1896
to shake a leg1904
to smack it about1914
flurry1917
to step on it (her)1923
to make it snappy1926
jildi1930
to get an iggri on1946
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > act quickly [verb (reflexive)] > make haste
speed1390
hiea1400
hasty?a1425
enhaste1430
delivera1475
press1489
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
i-fuseOE
speeda1325
hastec1330
hasty?a1425
hasten?1537
press1611
hackney1617
scurry1850
shoot1895
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 56v (MED) In þo men forsoþ þat beth sike, we hasty [L. properamus] not forto eke or augmente vertue.
c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 1 Þe forseid Adam hastied for to torne hom to his contre.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 105 He peyned him to hasty þe Mule.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. Prol. 8 Þai will haisty þame self to here þir novellis and recent dedis.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xi. iv. f. clvii/1 It mycht haisty him to his deith.
1898 N.E.D. at Hasty Mod. Sc. He told them to hastie.
Derivatives
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a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvii. 37 Thaire dayes fayld in vanyte: and thaire ȝeris with hastiynge [L. cum festinacione].
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