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of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. [Obs.] Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman.

A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will. These were my natural impulses for the undertaking. Dryden.…

Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. "Impure desires." Cowper.

not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that therinconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison.…

the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.

ly followed by of. For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily. Spenser. I am informed thoroughky of the cause. Shak.

Instantly. [Poetic] Instant he flew with hospitable haste. Pope.

e to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton.

); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.

Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. "Inviolate truth." Denham. There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. Spenser.

Unchaste; -- applied to a woman. L'Estrange.

of the other, as the stung Are of the adder. Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.

Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses. [Colloq. Eng.]

A light, brisk musical movement. Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jib. Shak.

One who remains or keeps in a place or position. Discreet; chaste; keepers at home. Titus ii. 5.

tate, farm, or tract. Go view the land, even Jericho. Josh. ii. 1. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

k or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.

To bathe; to wash one's self. In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. Pope.

To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.] Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes Shak.