Defn: The quality or state of being tardy.
TARDITATION
Tar`di*ta"tion, n.
Defn: Tardiness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.
TARDITY
Tar"di*ty, n. Etym: [L. tarditas.]
Defn: Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K. Digby.
TARDO
Tar"do, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)
Defn: Slow; — a direction to perform a passage slowly.
TARDO
Tar"do, n. Etym: [Sp., slow, L. tardus.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A sloth.
TARDY Tar"dy, a. [Compar. Tardier; superl. Tardiest.] Etym: [F. tardif, fr. (assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.]