TANTIVY
\tˈantɪvi], \tˈantɪvi], \t_ˈa_n_t_ɪ_v_i]\
Definitions of TANTIVY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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Swiftly: speedily: rapidly.
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A rapid, violent gallop: a devoted adherent of the court in the time of Charles II.; a royalist; "Those who took the king's side were anti-Birminghams, abhorrers, and tantivies. These appellations soon became obsolete."-Macaulay; "Collier ... was a Tory of the highest sort, such as in the court of his age was called a tantivy."-Macaulay: a mixture of haste and violence; a rush; a torrent; "Sir, I expected to hear from you in the language of the lost groat, and the prodigal son, and not in such a tantivy of language; but I perceive your communication is not always yea, yea."-Cleaveland.
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To hurry off: to go off in a hurry. Miss Burney.
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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