Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
To urge onward; to hasten.
Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
To move with haste.
A surname from Old French.
Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence Fr...
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The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.