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applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals. The king's business required haste. 1 Sam. xxi. 8.

to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.

One who hastens.

Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton.

In a chaste manner; with purity.

ect by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

One who chastens.

Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaundy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.

To chasten. [Obs.]

Too great haste.

A pretender to philosophy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]

Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.

Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure. Accelerated motion (Mech.), motion with a continually increasing velocity. -- Accelerating force, the force which causes accelerated motion. Nichol.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

An apparatus for hastening acetification. Knight.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.