Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Hasty.
- v. To hasten.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Hasty; hurried.
- To quicken the steps involuntarily when walking, as in paralysis agitans.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Hasty; hurried.
WordNet 3.0
- v. act or move at high speed
Etymologies
- From Latin festīnātus (Wiktionary)
- Latin festinātus, past participle of festināre, to hasten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There's also, in some of his works, a sense of festination -- of explosive speed, though that doesn't have quite the same connotation as "to festinate" -- as though the work is hurrying to get through itself before devolving into violent noise.”
“Nuntiate autem patri meo omnem gloriam meam in Aegypto, et omnia quae vidistis: et festinate, et descendere facite patrem meum huc.”
“Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.”
“But RIM needs to be careful, because innovations from elsewhere could signal its festinate demise.”
“In the festinate to organisation and compel systems however, whatever principle hit been overlooked:”
“With the underway festinate for refinances, most lenders 'underwriting departments are backlogged - and applications crapper intend cragfast there for a hebdomad or more.”
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“Costa Rica is a slower tranquil surround was grouping hit instance to speech and there is no festinate hour.”
“a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘festinate’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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words you have probably never heard o...
a list of words.
brabejum, braccate, braccial, bo'zal, brachiate, brachis'tochrone, brail, bran'card, bran'chiobdel'la, brassica, brasenia, euclase and 97 more...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
voluble, Metagrobolize, salubrious, calumny, fugacity, withdrawal, bourse, hypertrophy, leitmotif, argot, improvident, damask and 234 more...
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 27 more...
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Unsorted
poliorcetikon, lethologica, aegrotat, haha, logolepsy, logomisia, anfractuosity, nudiustertian, tontine, herostrat, acroamatic, bibliotaph and 132 more...
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Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Spe...
surquedry, equivocate, putative, turgid, congeries, irrefragable, quiddity, zaftig, flagitious, bloviate, perfidy, compendious and 227 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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Favorites
driddle, festinate, jargogle, malagrugrous, velleity, condign, veneniferous, balaam
Tweets
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wackyvorlon Wonderful! I hadn't run across this one before. It reminds me of the words of Caesar, Festina lente! Sep 22, 2008