'Sped' definitions:
Definition of 'Sped'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- To warn him now he is too farre sped. --Remedy of Love. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper. [1913 Webster]
- Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed! --Lydgate. [1913 Webster]
- I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make haste; to move with celerity. [1913 Webster]
- I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To be expedient. [Obs.] --Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.) [1913 Webster]