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. Hasty; hurried.
WordNet 3.0
- v. act or move at high speed
Etymologies
- Latin festinātus, past participle of festināre, to hasten.
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.”
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“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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wackyvorlon Wonderful! I hadn't run across this one before. It reminds me of the words of Caesar, Festina lente! Sep 22, 2008