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▪ I. tardy, a. (adv.)|ˈtɑːdɪ|
Forms: α. 5 tardyve, 6 tardife. β. 6 tardye, -dee, 6–7 tardie, (7 tar'de), 6– tardy.
[a. F. tardif, -ive (12th c. in Littré) = Sp. tardio, It. tardivo:—pop.L. type *tardīvus, f. tardus slow: see -ive. In the β forms the ending -ive is reduced to -ie, -ye, -y: see -ive, par. 3.]
1. Slow: in various senses.
a. Slow in motion, action, or occurrence; making little progress in a comparatively long time; of slow nature, sluggish.
α1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 23 b/2 We ought to gyue thankynges to the dyuyne dyspensacion, for the tardyue creaunce of holy faders to us necessarye. c1580T. Hacket Treas. Amadis de Gaule 155 Trusting that..ye wil not be tardife in so good a worke. 1600F. Walker tr. Sp. Mandeville 59 The chollerick man is commonly hasty and heedelesse..and the flegmatick more slowe and tardife.
β1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. i. 44 Say, is your tardie master now at hand? 1594― Rich. III, ii. i. 89 Some tardie Cripple bare the Countermand. 1713Young Last Day iii. 176, I faint, my tardy blood forgets to flow. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 169 ⁋1 Thus the firmest timber is of tardy growth. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxviii, To watch the gradual and tardy awakening of the intellect.
b. Not acting, coming, or happening until after the proper, expected, or desired time; late, behind-hand; delaying, or delayed; dilatory; sometimes, delaying through unwillingness, reluctant, ‘slow’ (to some action, or to do something).
1667Milton P.L. x. 853 On the ground Outstretcht he lay,..oft Curs'd his Creation, Death as oft accus'd Of tardie execution. 1742West Let. in Gray's Poems (1775) 147 O join with mine thy tuneful lay, And invocate the tardy May. 1749Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes 160 See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust. a1822Shelley Chas. I, ii. 355 Oh be our feet still tardy to shed blood. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 191 Then, at length, tardy justice was done to the memory of Oliver. 1908Betw. Trent & Ancholme 47 When a girl used to think her admirer rather tardy in asking for the wedding-day.
c. Late for a meeting, assembly, class, school, or appointment. U.S.
1638in Archives of Maryland (1883) I. 6 Such as did appeare thoughe tardie should be pardoned. 1843Yale Lit. Mag. VIII. 240 We were ‘tardy’ at our matins. 1904Minneapolis Times 29 May 6 Don't shoot your husband when he is two hours tardy for supper. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 4 July 21/4 During this time he had been neither absent nor tardy.
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a. Phr. to take (also rarely catch, find) a person tardy: to overtake (? orig. on account of slowness of advance); to surprise; to come upon unprepared or unawares; hence, to detect, ‘catch’ in a crime, fault, error, etc.: often merely synonymous with take v. 8. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 554/1 s.v. Forage, As we went a foragynge the laste daye, we were almoste taken tardy of a bande of horse men. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 253 He tooke her tardie with a plaine lye. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 725, I haue taken him tardye alreadie in falsifying the scripture. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. i. 52 Be not ta'ne tardie by vnwise delay. 1601Dent Pathw. Heaven 355 So shall the comming of the sonne of man to iudgement, take the world tardy and unprepared. 1620Rowlands Night Raven 16 A Drunkard, (whom the cup did tardy catch). 1640R. Brathwait Boulster Lect. 94 Who, being found tardy, said he was troubled with a Spirit. 1677Conn. Col. Rec. (1852) II. 499 Pawbequenuck..being found tardy of inticeing the surrenderers to depart from the English..was sent to prison. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 306 To sing morning hymns..from which exercise this angel must not be taken tardy, much less be absent.
†b. ellipt. for ‘taken tardy’: Detected in a fault, caught tripping. Obs.
1591R. Turnbull Exp. Jas. 150 b, Adulterie, a grieuous euill,..yet David (the man of God) was tardie therein. a1643J. Shute Judgement & Mercy (1645) 118 Montanus, in whose heresie Tertullian (though else a good man) was tardie. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 358 A Negroe, who had been tardy with one of the King's Wives. 1706Phillips (ed. 6), Tardy,..also guilty, found tripping, or in a Fault.
3. quasi-adv. Behind time, late. Phr. to come tardy off, to fall short, to be done or carried out inadequately (obs. or arch.: cf. come v. 61 i).
1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. xiii. (1589) 54 When Troy was ouer stoute,..and tardie lookt aboute. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. vi. 15 Too swift arriues as tardie as too slow. 1718Hickes & Nelson J. Kettlewell i. vi. 23 He never..incurred the least Censure, as by Neglect of..Prayers, or coming Tardy to them. a1836Leverett Lexicon Lat.-Eng. Pref., In such a case, the work is better overdone than come tardy off.
4. Comb., as tardy-gaited, tardy-moving, tardy-rising adjs.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. Prol. 20 The confident and ouer⁓lustie French, Doe..chide the creepple-tardy-gated Night, Who..doth limpe So tediously away. 1719Young Busiris 63 How like the dyal's tardy moving Shade! 1757Dyer Fleece i. Poems (1761) 82 Thither crowds Each greedy wretch for tardy-rising wealth, Which comes too late.
▪ II. † tardy, v. Obs.
[f. prec. adj.]
trans. To make tardy; to delay, retard, keep back.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. ii. 163 Which had been done, But that the good mind of Camillo tardied My swift command. 1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. vi. ix. 153 So much tardied and neglected by the miserable estate and condition of France. 1972Auden Epistle to Godson 10 We've had it, are in for a disaster that no four-letter words will tardy. |