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   Sped (?), imp. & p. p. of Speed.
   
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   Speed (spēd), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sped (spĕd), Speeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Speeding.] [AS. spēdan, fr. spēd, n.; akin to D. spoeden, G. sich sputen.  See Speed, n.]
   1. To go; to fare. [Obs.]
   
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   To warn him now he is too farre sped. Remedy of Love.
   
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   2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.  Shak.
   
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   Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped;
   
    The mightiest still upon the smallest fed. Waller.
   
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   3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
   
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   Save London, and send true lawyers their meed!
   
   For whoso wants money with them shall not speed! Lydgate.
   
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   I told ye then he should prevail, and speed
   
   On his bad errand. Milton.
   
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   4. To make haste; to move with celerity.
   
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   I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. Shak.
   
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   5. To be expedient. [Obs.]  Wyclif (2 Cor. xii. 1.)
   
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