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imˈpetuously, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In an impetuous manner; with great impetus or force; violently, vehemently; with sudden or rash energy.
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 104 The ryver..renneth so Inpytuously as a quarel out of an arbalastre. 1490― Eneydos x. 39 A clowde..decended impetuously vpon the flote. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 18 [They] round about him flocke impetuously. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 70 For Motion the Spirits move impetuously down the nervous filaments. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I ix. 141 They are impetuously led on to wrong acts. 1871H. Ainsworth Tower Hill i. i, Henry rushed impetuously into the room. |