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▪ I. speeding, vbl. n.|ˈspiːdɪŋ|
[f. speed v.]
1. a. Success, prosperity, good fortune; the fact of being successful or of attaining one's end.
a1300Cursor M. 23716 Þat dos all vr speding spill. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 112 It [sc. Mercury in mid-heaven] shal shewe spedynge of þe werk & perfeccion. c1460Play of Sacrament 112 In Spayne & in Spruce moche ys my spedyng. a1555Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 234 For which like doings we shall have like speedings. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 187 Such as pray doubting and uncertain of their speeding. 1608Shakes. Per. ii. iii. 116 Each one betake him to his rest; To-morrow all for speeding do their best. 1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 393 Either th'one or t'other of these two conspiracies cou'd not have miss'd of speeding, if the Duke..had not revealed them. 1713M. Henry Ordinat. Serm. Wks. 1857 II. 503/1 Those who go without sending, will come back without speeding. 1726S. Willard Body Div. 900/1 How we may so ask as not to miss of speeding in it.
b. Lot or hap in respect of success.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 9 By practise and ill speeding, these lessons had their breeding. 1599Shakes., etc. Pass. Pilgr. xviii, Heart is bleeding, All help needing, O cruel speeding, Fraughted with gall. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. 37 The not deferring is of great moment to the good speeding.
†2. The action of sending out or forth. Obs.
1382Wyclif Judith ii. 7 Olofernes..noumbrede men in to the speding [L. in expeditionem], as the king comaundede to hym.
3. The action of aiding, furthering, or setting forward.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 94 Yn spedynge of goodnesse. 1530Palsgr. 711/2 I set a syde, as counsaylours or judges do all their maters for the hasty spedynge of some one. 1625Sanderson Serm. (1681) I. 125 To give any kind of furtherance to the speeding either of justice in civil, or of judgment in criminal causes. 1672T. Cory Course & Pract. Comm.-Pl. 30 The Plaintiff was not bound to give the Defendant notice of the speeding a Writ of Inquiry of Damages.
4. a. With up; The process of increasing the rate of work or production.
1892Daily News 8 Feb. 6/2 One of the most remarkable features of modern industrial enterprise is the great ‘speeding up’ of industry. 1897S. & B. Webb Industr. Democr. I. viii. 399 This enforced ‘speeding up’ would be all very well if the old plan of paying by the piece were continued.
b. The act of driving a motor vehicle fast, esp. at an illegal speed. Also transf.
1908Evening Star (Washington) in Daily Chron. 7 Oct. 4/7 Baby carriages are required to carry lights at night in Chicago. That rapid city may yet find it necessary to provide special police to keep the baby carriages from speeding. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 2 Apr. 2/4 It was decided that everything possible would be done to assist the authorities in enforcing reasonable regulations regarding speeding. 1922J. A. Dunn Man Trap ii. 24 Driving a car about the countryside at the expense of many fines for speeding. 1977E. W. Hildick Loop xvii. 115 The copper... He's been trying to get you all afternoon... I hope you haven't been doing no speeding.
5. Comb. speeding citation, ticket U.S., a summons given to a motorist who has violated a speed regulation.
1974Marlboro Herald-Advocate (Bennettsville, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 1/4 Out of the 228 speeding citations..there was only one request for a jury trial.
1960‘E. McBain’ Heckler v. 70 He had flatly refused to square any raps for them, raps ranging from speeding tickets to disorderly conduct. 1978R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant ix. 114 If it'll get you out of Rio..I'll go like a greased pig in a slaughterhouse and pay the speeding tickets from my per diem.
▪ II. speeding, ppl. a.|ˈspiːdɪŋ|
[f. speed v.]
†1. well-speeding, successful. Obs.—1
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 235 Whoso hath the Paas large and slow, he is wyse and wel spedynge in al his dedys.
2. a. Leading with speed; rapid, direct.
c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 280 Where th'unequal winding bone..had place, and where there lay The speeding way to death. 1641H. L'Estrange God's Sabbath 81 For (to take a short and speeding course) the most embraced and popular opinion is that [etc.].
b. Causing to move with speed; favouring.
1757W. Wilkie Epigoniad iv. 86 To speeding gales I saw the canvass rise.
c. Moving with speed.
1847Emerson Poems, Visit Wks. (Bohn) I. 404 Speeding Saturn cannot halt. 1884Marshall's Tennis Cuts 269 Till the speeding ball appeared as One continuous flash of lightning.
d. Of motor vehicles, motorists, etc.: travelling fast, esp. at an illegal speed.
1957R. Matheson Shores of Space 156 People who had..been struck down by speeding cars. 1960Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 1/5 Now the speeding motorist will find things more difficult. 1978‘M. Yorke’ Point of Murder xiii. 125 A speeding Mini, in the small hours, might attract notice if a police patrol car were around.
†3.
a. Dispatching, finishing; deadly, fatal. Obs.
c1600Distr. Emperor ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 185 Twas a speedinge plott To send me into Spayne. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 313 He might chuse the most mischeuing, and most speeding hurt for him. 1660May Hen. II, vi. 419 A speeding feaver seiz'd his vitall part. 1693Dryden, etc. Juvenal xii. 22 A Neck so strong, so large, as wou'd demand The speeding Blow of some uncommon hand.
†b. Liable to a fatal wound. Obs.
1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 68 The best weapons the Iesuits haue to defend themselues, and wound their opposits in the speedingst place they can. 1631Heywood Fair Maid of West i. Wks. 1874 II. 278 You hit him in the very speeding place.
†4. Effective; decisive. Obs.
1612Webster White Devil Wks. (Rtldg.) 36/2 There's no way More speeding than this thought on. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. iii. 40 The slye whorsons Haue got a speeding tricke to lay downe Ladies. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 212 If he could produce but one ancient copy (which is a speeding argument in Scaligers and Casaubons Grammar).
5. Serving to further, advance, or aid.
a1625Fletcher Noble Gent. iii. i, I am resolv'd my Wife shall up to Court;..that is a speeding course, And cannot chuse but breed a mighty fortune. 1812Cary Dante, Paradise xxii. 41 Such a speeding grace shone over me, That from their impious worship I reclaim'd The dwellers round about.
Hence ˈspeedingly adv.
1647N. Ward Simp. Cobler 77 Pray speedily therefore, and speedingly. |