ófost

f. Haste, speed :-- Ófost is sélost tó gecýðanne hwanon eówer cyme sý the quicker you make known where you come from the better, Beo. Th. 518; B. 256: 6007 ; B. 3007. Ófest, Cd. Th. 196, 18; Exod. 293. Ófst and hradung, R. Ben. 3, 11. Swá hwylc preóst swá wyrne (refuses to baptize a man) for ófste his fóre qui-cunque presbyter festinandi itineris sui causa deneget, L. Ecg. C. 6 ; Th. ii. 138, 21. Se cnapa hit mid ófste gegearcode puer festinavit et coxit illum, Gen. 18, 7. Mid ófste (oefeste, Lind.) cum festinatione, Mk. Skt. 6, 15 : Lk. Skt. l, 39 : Jn. Skt. ll, 31. Wé secgaþ nú mid ófste ðás endebirdnisse, for ðan ðe wé oft habbaþ ymbe ðis áwriten, Ælfc. T. Grn. 3, 30. Ðeós worald is on ófste this world is hurrying on (to its end), Wulfst. 156, 5: Cd. Th. 191, 32; Exod. 223. Beó ðú on ófeste hasten, Beo. Th. 777; B. 386. On ófoste, 5487; B. 2747. Þorh ófst per anticipationem, Wrt. Voc. ii. 116, 77. Ófestum hastily, Cd. Th. 140, 32; Gen. 2336. Ófestum miclum, 177, 15; Gen. 2930. Ófstum, 153, 8 ; Gen. 2535 : 161, 29 ; Gen. 2672. [Laym, ovest.] ofost