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SPEED, pret. and pp. sped, speeded. The L. expedio may be from the same root, which signifies to drive, to hurry, of the family of L. peto.
1. To make haste to move with celerity.
2. To have success to prosper to succeed that is, to advance in one's enterprise. He that's once demi'd will hardly speed. Those that profaned and abused the second temple, sped no better.
3. To have any condition good or : to fare. Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped, The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.
SPEED,
1. TO dispatch to send away in haste. He sped him thence home to his habitation.
2. To hasten to hurry to put in quick motion. -But sped his steps along the hoarse resounding shore.
3. TO hasten to a conclusion to execute to dispatch as, to speed judicial acts.
4. To assist to help forward to hasten. -With rising gales that sped their happy flight.
5. To prosper to cause to succeed. May heaven speed this undertaking.
6. To furnish in haste.
7. To dispatch to kill to ruin to destroy. With a speeding thrust his heart he found. A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped If foes, they write if friends they read me dead.
Note In the phrase, "God speed," there is probably a gross mistake in considering it as equivalent to "may God give you success." The true phrase is probably "good speed good, in Saxon, being written god. I bid you or wish you good speed, that is, good success.
SPEED, n.
1. Swiftness quickness celerity applied to animals. We say, a man or a horse runs or travels with speed a fowl flies with speed. We speak of the speed of a fish in the water, but we do not speak of the speed of a river, or of wind, or of a falling body. I think however I have seen the word applied to the lapse of time and the motion of lightning, but in poetry only.
2. Haste dispatch as, to perform a journey with speed to execute an order with speed.
3. Rapid pace as a horse of speed. We say also, high speed, full speed.
4. Success prosperity in an undertaking favorable issue that is, advance to the desired end. O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day. Genesis 24 . This use is retained in the proverb, "to make more haste than good speed," and in the Scriptural phrase, "to bid one good speed," Not God speed, as erroneously written.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Speed'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/speed.html.
Entry for 'Speed'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/speed.html.