a. Obs. Forms: 4 foolhastif, 7 foolhastie [a. OF. fol hastif, comb. of fol FOOL a. and hastif HASTY; cf. prec. and FOOLHARDY.] Foolishly hasty, precipitate.

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1393.  Gower, Conf., I. 334.

        The man whiche is malicious
And foolhastif, full ofte he falleth.

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1600.  Holland, Livy, XXII. xli. 458. The audaciousnesse of the foolhastie Consull.

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  Hence † Fool-hastiness.

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13[?].  Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., xxxii. 617.

        Of him comeþ fool-hastines also,
Loue of him-self wol wiþ hym go.

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1393.  Gower, Conf., III. 99.

        Of conteke and fool hastifnesse
He hath a right great besinesse.

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