haste

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

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

The king's business required haste.

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

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

To urge onward; to hasten.

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.

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.

A surname from Old French.