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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

APA'CE, adv. [a and pace.]
With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily; with haste; hastily; applied to things in motion or progression; as, birds fly apace; weeds grow apace.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adv
1: with rapid movements; "he works quickly" [syn: quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace] [ant: easy, slow, slowly, tardily]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Etymology: Middle English, probably from Middle French à pas on step Date: 14th century 1. at a quick pace ; swiftly <growing apace> 2. abreast — used with of or with <trying to keep apace with changes in technology>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. literary swiftly, quickly. Etymology: OF à pas at (a considerable) pace

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Apace A*pace", adv. [Pref. a- + pace. OE. a pas at a walk, in which a is the article. See Pace.] With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. --Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel draws on apace. --I. Taylor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something develops or continues apace, it is developing or continuing quickly. (FORMAL) = speedily, swiftly ADV: ADV after v

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-pas' ("at a pace"): With "come," 2Sa 18:25; "flee," Jer 46:5, for "rapidly," "hastily," "fast," corresponding to a Hebrew idiom that adds emphasis or intensity to an idea by repetition of the word or its equivalent.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. Quickly, speedily, swiftly, rapidly, hastily, post-haste, with speed, with quick pace.

Moby Thesaurus

PDQ, amain, at flank speed, at once, by forced marches, cursorily, decisively, directly, double-quick, expeditiously, fast, feverishly, flat-out, forthwith, furiously, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in no time, in passing, in seven-league boots, instanter, instantly, lickety-cut, lickety-split, on the double, on the instant, on the run, on the spot, pell-mell, post, posthaste, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, rapidly, right away, right off, slapdash, smartly, snappily, speedily, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, superficially, swiftly, trippingly, under forced draft, whip and spur, with a rush, with all haste, with all speed, with dispatch, with giant strides, with haste, with rapid strides, with speed, without delay, without further delay