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Definition of Faster
1. Adverb. More quickly.
Definition of Faster
1. n. One who abstains from food.
Definition of Faster
1. Adjective. (comparative of fast) ¹
2. Adverb. (comparative of fast POS=adverb) ¹
3. Noun. Agent noun of fast (voluntarily refrain from eating); one who fasts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Faster
1. fast [adj] - See also: fast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faster
Literary usage of Faster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"Death of John the faster. turies between Pope and Patriarch, ... When the Universal
Conqueror faster. had thus mowed down the Universal Bishop, ..."
2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"... not I; for then they got faster hold of my conscience : and then, if I did
but think of going back to sin (though my mind was turned against it), ..."
3. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"John the faster had written to him and had employed the offensive title " in almost
... The bitterness of the strife abated when John the faster died on 2 ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"But there is no doubt that the oversea commerce has been increasing faster than
the continental commerce and the commerce with countries of economically ..."
5. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"faster, faster, О Circe, Goddess. The bright procession Let the wild, thronging
train, Of eddying forms, Sweep through my soul ! 1849. ..."
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