god speed you

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god speed you - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Speed \Speed\, v. t.
     1. To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid;
        to favor. "Fortune speed us!" --Shak.
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              With rising gales that speed their happy flight.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to
        drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
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              He sped him thence home to his habitation.
                                                    --Fairfax.
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     3. To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
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              Judicial acts . . . are sped in open court at the
              instance of one or both of the parties. --Ayliffe.
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     4. To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to
        undo. "Sped with spavins." --Shak.
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              A dire dilemma! either way I 'm sped.
              If foes, they write, if friends, they read, me dead.
                                                    --Pope.
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     5. To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking,
        especially in setting out upon a journey.
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              Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope.
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     God speed you, them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you
        have good speed.
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     Syn: To dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry.
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