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  1. adjective Moving or functioning rapidly and energetically; speedy.
  2. adjective Learning, thinking, or understanding with speed and dexterity; bright: a quick mind.
  3. adjective Perceiving or responding with speed and sensitivity; keen.
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  • Jacob! quick--quick--here A band of counts and princes cross the courtyard. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Pania Now, my good Pania!--quick--with what I ordered Pan. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
  • The other warriors sprang up; they saw their chief dead, and the two warriors coming towards them; their revenge was quick--quick as that of the panther: the two base warriors were killed Then there was a great fight among the Pale-face band, in which many were slain; but the young man and some other braves escaped from their enemies, and, after two moons, reached the Arkansas, where they found their friends and some Makota Conayas (priests--black-gowns). —  Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
  • Little Julien came in, one day, from his play, when his mother met him at the door, saying, "Run, Julien, quick--quick--for the doctor Where, mother--where shall I find him Oh! —  Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
  • It is in that drawer--quick, give it me Thanks--thanks--there is time to tear it; and these good friends, Dr. Jones and Mr. Blair, take witness--I destroy this wicked will; and my only child, Maria, has my wealth in course of law. —  Heart A Social Novel
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sudden ·  simple ·  brief ·  easy ·  vigorous

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  1. Middle English, alive, lively, quick, from Old English cwicu, alive; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English quik, qwik, quyk, quek, cwic, cwuc, from Anglo-Saxon cwic, cwyc, cwicu, cucu, living, alive, = Old Saxon OFries. quik = Dutch kwik = Low German quik = Old High German quec, queh, quek, chec, Middle High German quec (queck-), kec (keck-), German queck (in quecksilber = English quicksilver), living, keck, living, lively, quick (later Swedish käck = Danish kjæk, lively), = Icelandic kvikr, kykr = Swedish qvick = Danish kvik (all these forms having an unorig. k developed before the orig. w) = Gothic (Moesogothic) kwius (*kwiwa-), living, quick, = Latin vivus, living (cf. vivere, live, later vita, life), for orig. *gvivus, = Greek βίος, life (later βιοῡν, live, βίοτος, life, way of life) (the same relation of English c (k), Latin v, Greek β appearing in English come = Latin venire = Greek βαίνειν), = Old Bulgarian zhivŭ = Bohemian zhiwy = Russian zhivu = Lithuanian givas, living; Sanskrit √ jīv, live. To the same root in Teutonic belongs Icelandic kveikja, kveykja, kindle (a fire).
  2. from quick, adjective
  3. from Middle English quikken, quiken, quyken; from quick, adjective
 

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