To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's
affairs.
Herrick.
Tar"di*ty (?), n. [L. tarditas.] Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K.
Digby.
||Tar"do (?), a. [It.] (Mus.) Slow; — a direction to perform a passage
||slowly.
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||Tar"do, n. [Sp., slow, L. tardus.] (Zoöl.) A sloth.
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Tar"dy (?), a. [Compar. Tardier (?); superl. Tardiest.] [F. tardif, fr.
(assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.] 1. Moving with a slow pace
or motion; slow; not swift.
And check the tardy flight of time.
Sandys.
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave.
Prior.
2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; — opposed to prompt; as, to be
tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot.
The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed.
Waller.