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Delicate; refined; dainty; pure. Dear love, continue nice and chaste. Donne. A nice and subtile happiness. Milton.

rbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts.

Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.] Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance. Chapman. This is not atheism, But court observance. Beau. & Fl.

To put down; to crush out; to suppress. [Obs.] The mutiny he there hastes to oppress. Shak.

iefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat, over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.

To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town Swift. You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. Tennyson.

Running over slightly or in haste; cursory. [R.]

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

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

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.

To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict. Back to his sight precipitates her steps. Glover. If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous. Bacon.

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

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.

To hasten, or press forward. [Obs.]

The act of hastening; haste. [Obs.] T. Adams.

; charge; jurisdiction; sphere. The woman'sprovince is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection. Tattler.

ith or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience. A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned. Milton.