a. Obs. rare–1. [Alteration of TIDY a., after adjs. in -IVE; perh. by association with HASTIVE, HASTY, tardife, TARDY, etc.] Timely, opportune: = TIDY a. 1.
? 17[?]. Lord Barnett, etc., xv., in Child, Ballads, III. (1885), 257/1. Being in the tidive hour.
