The answers to these letters left no hope that the question would be submitted to the Chambers in time to have the result known before the adjournment of Congress, and by the refusal to hasten the convocation of the Chambers before the last of December showed unequivocally that, so far from taking all measures permitted by the constitution to _hasten_ the period of presenting the law, it was to be left to the most remote period of the ordinary course of legislation.Ī Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) 1878 verb speed up the progress of facilitate.

verb To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.intransitive verb To move with celerity to be rapid in motion to act speedily or quickly to go quickly.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.transitive verb To press to drive or urge forward to push on to precipitate to accelerate the movement of to expedite to hurry.To cause to move or act with celerity cause to make haste drive or urge forward expedite.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.Indeed, hasty and hastiness usually convey censure. While hasten has come to be thus used only in a good sense, haste, n., hasty, and hastiness retain a bad meaning as well as a good: as, the book was evidently written in haste he had a hasty temper he had occasion to regret his hastiness. To hasten is to work, move, etc., quickly, but properly not too quickly to hurry is to go too fast for dignity, comfort, or thoroughness: as, to hasten to tell a piece of good news to hasten the erection of a building to hurry through a lesson to look hurried. To move or act with celerity be rapid, speedy, or quick make haste: applied primarily to voluntary action.

intransitive verb To speed up accelerate.

intransitive verb To cause to happen sooner than otherwise would be the case.

intransitive verb To cause to move or act swiftly.

intransitive verb To move or act swiftly.

From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Hasten or go quickly