Celerity

Celerity
Celerity Ce*ler"i*ty, n. [L. celeritas, from celer swiftm speedy: sf. F. c['e]l['e]rit['e].] Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness. [1913 Webster]

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • Celerity BBS — was a descendant of the freely distributed source of TCS BBS 1.43, and ultimately nearly completely rewritten. OriginIt originally began as a project of Brendon Woirhaye (The Byter) and David Hicks (Moebius) in 1990 to quickly modify an existing… …   Wikipedia

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