hot-spurredadj.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes sig. biij^v Your hote spurred ministers.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K2 Such a hotspurd plague as hath not been heard of.

1601 A. Munday Downfall Earle of Huntington sig. G ^v Soft hot spurd priest, tis not so quickly done.

1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 41 A hot-spurr'd youth height Hylas.

a1713 A. Pitcairne Babell (1830) 45 Some have ne'er a bit Of sense, but only hot spurr'd zeall, That fires them vp from top to taill.

1754 Hist. & Adventures of Lady's Slippers & Shoes 55 They formed a contrivance, which should utterly quench the flame with which this hot-spurred wight was so dreadfully consumed.

1813 D. W. Paynter Godfrey Ranger III. viii. 142 The spirited, or rather hotspurred, manner in which I leaped over hedges.

1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 112 Who on this day with you The hot-spurred bustle and the stir Of dinsome life eschew.

1929 J. W. Thomason Jeb Stuart xviii. 414 While he rides, there is a burst of firing east of Aldie: it is hot-spurred Kilpatrick of Gregg's division, driving in Munford's pickets.

2005 S. D. M. Carpenter Mil. Leadership in Brit. Civil Wars ii. iii. 61 By late September, an effort to derail the slide towards war among the less hot-spurred gentry of Yorkshire emerged.