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Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.

In haste; quickly; rapidly.

ess to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor. With a submissive step I hasted down. Prior.

omposition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke.

To go away in haste. [Colloq.]

Hastening to devour; furious.

To march on; to go forward in haste. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18.

The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

ble; unutterable; ineffable. [Obs.] Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. Shak. -- Un`ex*press"ive*ly, adv.

Free from rioting. [Obs.] "A chaste, unrioted house." May (Lucan).

er. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

r. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

intermission; rest; leisure. It was not in his nature, however, at least till years had chastened it, to take any vacation from controversy. Palfrey. Hence, specifically: -(a) (Law)

Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.

Widowhood. [R.] "Chaste viduity." Ld. Ellenborough.

Being a virgin; chaste; of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly; modest; indicating modesty; as, a virgin blush. "Virgin shame." Cowley. Innocence and virgin modesty . . . That would be wooed, and unsought be won. Milton.

Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women. Mistress Ford . . . the virtuous creature, that hath the jealous fool to her husband. Shak. -- Vir"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Vir"tu*ous*ness, n.

wait, till my change come. Job xiv. 14. They also serve who only stand and wait. Milton. Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait. Dryden.

eir places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken. Whip and spur, with the utmost haste. -- Whip crane, or Whip purchase, a simple form of crane having a small drum from which the load is suspended, turned by pulling on a rope wound around larger drum on the same axle. -- Whip gin. See Gin block, under 5th Gi…