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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''god'' ''speid'', from the phrase ''God'' ''spede'' you [[God]] prosper you
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: : to utter the [[words]] ‘God speed (you)’; esp. to [[express]] a [[wish]] for the [[success]] of one who is setting out on some [[journey]] or [[enterprise]].
::1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 John 10 Yf ther come eny vnto you and bringe not this learninge him receave not to housse: neither bid him God spede.
::1597 Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 31 A brace of draimen bid, God speed him wel.
::1776 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IV. 76 Every one seems to bid us God-speed!
*2: a. the Godspeed (of a [[thing]]), the [[conclusion]], finish. Also, in the Godspeed, in the nick of time. Obsolete
:b. in God-speed dinner, God-speed party. (Cf. farewell)
::1867 Athenæum 26 Oct. 539/1 Lord Lytton will preside at a Godspeed dinner to be given to Mr. Charles Dickens, on Saturday, next week, November 2.
::1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. vii. 127, I went, and the God-speed party was a very pleasant one.
*3: at the back of God-speed = at the back of beyond
::1858 Trollope Dr. Thorne (1859) v. 63, If I don't leave you at the back of God-speed before long, I'll give you the mare and the horse too.
==Description==
'''Godspeed''' or ''God Speed'' comes from the Middle English [[expression]] "God spede (you)", a [[wish]] for success and fortune for one setting out on an [[enterprise]], voyage, [[adventure]], or travels. It may also mean [[good]] [[luck]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''god'' ''speid'', from the phrase ''God'' ''spede'' you [[God]] prosper you
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: : to utter the [[words]] ‘God speed (you)’; esp. to [[express]] a [[wish]] for the [[success]] of one who is setting out on some [[journey]] or [[enterprise]].
::1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 John 10 Yf ther come eny vnto you and bringe not this learninge him receave not to housse: neither bid him God spede.
::1597 Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 31 A brace of draimen bid, God speed him wel.
::1776 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IV. 76 Every one seems to bid us God-speed!
*2: a. the Godspeed (of a [[thing]]), the [[conclusion]], finish. Also, in the Godspeed, in the nick of time. Obsolete
:b. in God-speed dinner, God-speed party. (Cf. farewell)
::1867 Athenæum 26 Oct. 539/1 Lord Lytton will preside at a Godspeed dinner to be given to Mr. Charles Dickens, on Saturday, next week, November 2.
::1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. vii. 127, I went, and the God-speed party was a very pleasant one.
*3: at the back of God-speed = at the back of beyond
::1858 Trollope Dr. Thorne (1859) v. 63, If I don't leave you at the back of God-speed before long, I'll give you the mare and the horse too.
==Description==
'''Godspeed''' or ''God Speed'' comes from the Middle English [[expression]] "God spede (you)", a [[wish]] for success and fortune for one setting out on an [[enterprise]], voyage, [[adventure]], or travels. It may also mean [[good]] [[luck]].
[[Category: General Reference]]
