To haste, or speede. Mortem accelerare. Plin. To hasten death. Si accelerare volent. Cic. If they will make speede. Accelerare & Tardare, contraria. Plin. Gradum accelerare, vel iter, periphrasis, pro eo quod est Properare. Liu. To make hast or speede. Accelerare alicui magistratum aliquem. Tac. To cause one to be in an office before he be of yeares sufficient. Opus accelerare. Stat. To hasten forward. Præcepta accelerare. Claud. To do speedily that we be commaunded. Viam accelerare. Valer. Flac.

I. Act., to hasten, accelerate: gressum adcelerāsse decet, Att. ap. Non. 89, 25 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 139); so, gradum, Liv. 2, 43, 8: mortem, Lucr. 6, 772: iter, Caes. B. C. 2, 39; Liv. 31, 29: oppugnationem, Tac. A. 12, 46: consulatum alicui, id. ib. 3, 75.—Pass., Tac. Agr. 43; id. H. 2, 85; id. A. 1, 50.—

II. Neutr., to hasten, to make haste: si adcelerare volent, ad vesperam consequentur, Cic. Cat. 2, 4, 6: ipse quoque sibi acceleraret, Nep. Att. 22, 2; Liv. 3, 27, 8; Verg. A. 5, 675; 9, 221, 505; Plin. 2, 17, 14, 74 al.: ad aliquem opprimendum, Liv. 27, 47, 8.—With local accus.: Cremonam, Tac. H. 2, 100.—Impers.: quantum accelerari posset, as speedily as possible, Liv. 3, 46, 5.