haste

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.uncountableusually

• We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.obsoleteuncountableusually

• I said in my haste, All men are liars.

To urge onward; to hasten.archaictransitive

• Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.

To move with haste.archaicintransitive

• The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
• He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.