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ything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway.

A philosophaster; a philosopher. [R.] Carlyle.

One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc.

A tedious and wearisome time. In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak.

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] "In post he came." Shak.

dess pitously he preyde. Chaucer. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matt. vi. 6. I pray, or (by ellipsis) Pray, I beg; I request; I entreat you; -- used in asking a question, m…

quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth. "Precipitance of judgment." I. Watts.

Unexpectedly or foolishly brought on or hastened; rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless. Jer. Taylor. "Precipitant rebellion." Eikon Basilike.

With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner. Milton.

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon.

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.

Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity. "The precipitation of inexperience." Rambler.

Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. Sir T. Browne. "Marian's low, precipitous `Hush!'" Mrs. Browning. -- Pre*cip"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Pre*cip"i*tous*ness, n.

malist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. Macaulay.

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.] Bacon.

Influenced by prejudice; biased. [R.] " With not too hasty and prejudicant ears." Milton.

ossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learn…

to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment. Esther viii. 14.

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. Swift.

rity previously obtained. Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner Shak. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.