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sped |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sped \Sped\, imp. & p. p. of {Speed}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Speed \Speed\ (sp[=e]d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sped} (sp[e^]d), {Speeded}; p. pr & vb n. {Speeding}.] [AS. sp[=e]dan, fr sp[=e]d, n.; akin to D. spoeden G. sich sputen. See {Speed}, n.] 1. To go to fare. [Obs.] To warn him now he is too farre sped. --Remedy of Love. 2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. --Shak. Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. --Waller. 3. To fare well to have success; to prosper. Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed! --Lydgate. I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand. --Milton. 4. To make haste; to move with celerity. I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. --Shak. 5. To be expedient. [Obs.] --Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.)
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