Heady
King James Dictionary [1]
Heady a. hed'y. See Head. Rash hasty precipitate violent disposed to rush forward in an enterprise without thought or deliberation hurried on by will or passion ungovernable.
All the talent required,is to be heady, to be violent on one side or the other.
1. Apt to affect the head inflaming intoxicating strong as spirituous liquors.
Champagne is a heady wine.
2. Violent impetuous as a heady current. Not usual.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
HEADY . This form of the English word has been displaced by ‘headstrong.’ It occurs in 2 Timothy 3:1 , where the same Gr. word is used as is translated ‘rashly’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘rash’) in Acts 19:36 . Bp. Hall ( Works , ii. 109) says, ‘We may offend as well in our heddye acceleration, as in our delay.’
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
(2): ( a.) Violent; impetuous.
(3): ( a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]
'Headstrong.' 2 Timothy 3:4 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
hed´i : The translation in the King James Version of προπετής , propetḗs , "falling forward," trop. "prone," "ready to do anything," "precipitate," "headlong" ( 2 Timothy 3:4 , "heady, high-minded," etc., the Revised Version (British and American) "headstrong"; in Acts 19:36 , the only other place in the New Testament where propetēs occurs, the King James Version has "rashly," the Revised Version (British and American) "rash"). " Headstrong signifies strong in the head or the mind, and heady , full of one's own head" (Crabb, English Synonymes ). " Heady confidence promises victory without contest" (Johnson).
