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To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak.

In a ill manner; badly; weakly. How ill this taper burns! Shak. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Wanton; unchaste; as, a woman of light character. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shak.

Not chastely; wantonly. Swift.

Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier than erewhile He seems. Milton.

Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser.

ddress often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose !

To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. Bacon.

touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. Shak.

To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to. While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road. Wordsworth.

ming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.

Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.