† ˈhastive, ˈhastif, a. Obs.
Also 3–5 -yf(e, -ife, -yve.
[a. OF. hastif, -ive, mod.F. hâtif, -ive, speedy, hurried, impetuous, f. haste, mod. hâte haste n. + -ive. See also hasty, which is in origin a doublet of this word.]
1. Speedy, swift: = hasty a. 1.
| 1382 Wyclif Jer. xxxvi. 29 Hastif shal come the kinge of Babiloyne, and waste this lond. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 56 And make many hastif rodes. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2092 Dethe was to hastyfe, To renne on the. |
b. Of fruit, etc.: Maturing early; early, forward: = hasty a. 1 d.
| 1727–51 Chambers Cycl., Hastive, a French term, some⁓times used in English for early, forward..The hastive fruits are strawberries and cherries. We have also hastive peas, etc. |
2. Precipitate, rash: = hasty a. 3.
| 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 458 Folc hastyf hii beþ ek ynou, & also wyþout rede. 1340 Ayenb. 184 Of hastif red hit uorþingþ efterward. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1540 (1568) (MS. Gg. 4. 27) Hastyf man wanted neuere care. c 1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4984 Treulie thou were a litle to hastife. |
3. Quick-tempered, passionate (= hasty a. 4); in a passion, angry.
| 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 414 Renable nas he noȝt of tonge, ac of speche hastyf. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 177 Richard was hastif, & ansuerd þat stund, Certes þou lies cheitiff, & as a stinkand hund. c 1410 Chron. Eng. 667 in Ritson Met. Rom II. 298 The king was hastif ant starte up, Ant hente the thef by the top. 1489 Caxton Faytes of A. i. vii. 17 That he be not testyf, hastyf, hoot ne angry. |