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† ˈhastive, ˈhastif, a. Obs.
Also 3–5 -yf(e, -ife, -yve.
[a. OF. hastif, -ive, mod.F. hâtif, -ive, speedy, hurried, impetuous, f. haste, mod. hâte haste n. + -ive. See also hasty, which is in origin a doublet of this word.]
1. Speedy, swift: = hasty a. 1.
1382Wyclif Jer. xxxvi. 29 Hastif shal come the kinge of Babiloyne, and waste this lond. 1390Gower Conf. II. 56 And make many hastif rodes. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2092 Dethe was to hastyfe, To renne on the.
b. Of fruit, etc.: Maturing early; early, forward: = hasty a. 1 d.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Hastive, a French term, some⁓times used in English for early, forward..The hastive fruits are strawberries and cherries. We have also hastive peas, etc.
2. Precipitate, rash: = hasty a. 3.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 458 Folc hastyf hii beþ ek ynou, & also wyþout rede. 1340Ayenb. 184 Of hastif red hit uorþingþ efterward. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1540 (1568) (MS. Gg. 4. 27) Hastyf man wanted neuere care. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4984 Treulie thou were a litle to hastife.
3. Quick-tempered, passionate (= hasty a. 4); in a passion, angry.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 414 Renable nas he noȝt of tonge, ac of speche hastyf. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 177 Richard was hastif, & ansuerd þat stund, Certes þou lies cheitiff, & as a stinkand hund. c1410Chron. Eng. 667 in Ritson Met. Rom II. 298 The king was hastif ant starte up, Ant hente the thef by the top. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. vii. 17 That he be not testyf, hastyf, hoot ne angry. |