sudden

Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.

The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.

From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.

Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

Never was such a sudden scholar made.

Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.

Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

Suddenly.

Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.