| 单词 | in post-haste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (all) post-haste Haste like that of a person travelling post (see post adv.1); great promptness and speed. Frequently in phrase in (all) post-haste. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [noun] > urgent hiec1175 rape?a1300 hastec1300 ragec1400 post-haste1545 post expedition1546 burn1835 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > like that of travelling post-haste1545 post expedition1546 post-pace1546 post speed1546 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 6 Yf he make Poste haste, bothe he that oweth the horse, and he..that afterwarde shal bye the horse, may chaunce to curse hym. a1555 J. Philpot Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) III. 2008/2 Farewell deare brother. written in posthast because of straite kepyng. 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xxv. 19/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II With all the hast and post hast he could, he turneth a faire paire of heeles and runneth awaie. 1600 W. Vaughan Golden-groue (1608) K7 They send for them home againe in all post haste to visit their mammes. 1632 Swed. Intelligencer II. 66 The Articles..were with all post-hast, to be dispeeded away. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ix. 199 Messengers are sent one after another in post-haste to the Physician. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 176 You did not use to write in Post-Hast. 1837 Commodore & Daughter I. 39 It was mainly through the interest of his uncle that he was made post with such post-haste. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 386 A drenching of that violence..has sent more than one luckless fellow in good earnest posthaste to another world. < as lemmas |
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