rashly, adv.
(ˈræʃlɪ)
[f. rash a. + -ly2.]
1. Quickly, rapidly, hastily. Obs. exc. dial.
| a 1547 Surrey in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 17 With teares, for his redresse, I rashly to him ran. 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1692) 102 As we see Fewel burns rashly in such weather. 1805 Stagg Poems, Auld Lang Seyne xvii, Rashly they scale the scattran swathe. |
2. In a rash or inconsiderate manner.
| 1535 Coverdale Prov. xxi. 29 An vngodly man goeth forth rashly. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 29 To the intente I..do nothyng rashely,..I require a time to take deliberation. 1631 Gouge God's Arrows iii. §43. 261 What is believed without a promise, is..rashly and audaciously presumed. 1696 Whiston Th. Earth (1722) 50 We ought not rashly to pass our Judgment on them. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 191 Honorius..rashly disqualified many of his bravest and most skilful officers. 1861 Geo. Eliot Silas M. 38 The butcher..was not disposed to answer rashly. |
| ellipt. 1747 in Col. Rec. Pennsylv. V. 86 The Council of the Six Nations does not altogether like it, but think it too Rashly of the Mohocks. |
† 3. Without settled course.
Obs. rare—1.
| 1695 Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. vi. 194 Those things which in their Nature are mutable and which would otherwise rashly and irregularly float about. |