a. rare. [f. L. vēlōci-, vēlox swift + -OUS.] Rapid. Also Velociously adv.
In quot. 1872 humorously for ‘fast.’
1680. C. Nesse, Ch. Hist., 357. Satan was seen to fall like lightning from heaven, to wit, viewably, violently, and velociously or swiftly.
1775. Romans, Florida, App. 62. Providing so facile a navigation for the regions of the west, by means of a velocious current.
1872. Dasent, Three to One, III. 233. They are not at all like some of the young ladies of the present day, ‘velocious,’ as we have heard a Yankee say.
