Word Meanings - PROPERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of hastening; haste. T. Adams.

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• HASTENER
  1. One who hastens. 2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
• HASTEN
  To press; to drive or urge forward; 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.
• HASTE
  hast, cf. OF. haste, F. hâte ; all perh. fr. the 1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals. The king's business required haste. 1 Sam. xxi. 8. 2. The state of
• CHASTEN
  chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and 1. To correct 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.
• OVERHASTE
  Too great haste.
• UNCHASTE
  Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.
• PHILOSOPHASTER
  A pretender to philosophy. Dr. H. More.
• CHASTENER
  One who chastens.
• CHASTELY
  In a chaste manner; with purity.
• ENCHASTEN
  To chasten.
• CHASTENESS
  Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaundy, or affected; as, chasteness of design. (more info) 1. Chastity; purity.
• POSTHASTE
  Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.
• CHASTENED
  Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.
• CHASTE
  1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton. 2. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech;
• SHASTER; SHASTRA
  A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas.