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procrastinate, v.|prəʊˈkræstɪneɪt|
[f. L. prōcrastin-āre to put off till the morrow, to defer, f. L. prō, pro-1 1 d + crastin-us belonging to tomorrow (f. crās to-morrow): see -ate3.]
1. trans. To postpone till another day; to put off from day to day; to defer, delay. Now rare.
1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 114 The significations of this Coniunction happening in the watrie Trigon, are procrastinated or prolonged untill after sixe Coniunctions immediately insuing. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1216 The shortnes of time, which allowed us no leasure..to procrastinate the matter. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iv. 158 Many such deuices they fained to procrastinate the time. 1775Sterne's Sent. Journ. Contin. IV. 246, I blush to take a view of myself, and would procrastinate a scrutiny which harrows me at reflection. 1871Browning Balaust. 2385 It was the crowning grace of that great heart, To keep back joy; procrastinate the truth.
2. intr. To defer action, delay; to be dilatory.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 93 Bacherchan having commission to persecute Curroon, procrastinates not. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 37 To procrastinate in matters clear..may be dangerous. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 225 While we procrastinate, a fatal stroke may intervene. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. i. ii. (1874) 45 He hesitates and procrastinates till the time for action is over.
Hence proˈcrastinated ppl. a., proˈcrastinating vbl. n. and ppl. a.; proˈcrastinatingly adv.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. 73 The President seeing the procrastinating of time was no course to liue. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 124 There is no safetie in procrastinating. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 686 Great Winds and Rain..caused a procrastinating Delay in the Transacting of many Affairs. 1774Burke Amer. Tax. Wks. II. 402 A timid, unsystematick, procrastinating ministry. 1789M. Madan tr. Persius (1795) 130 note, Procrastinated time will always fly on. 1893Huxley in Life (1900) II. xxi. 364, I was too procrastinatingly lazy to expend even that amount of energy. |