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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Hasty.
  2. v. To hasten.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Hasty; hurried.
  2. To quicken the steps involuntarily when walking, as in paralysis agitans.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To hurry.
  2. adj. obsolete hurried, hasty

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Hasty; hurried.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. act or move at high speed

Etymologies

  1. From Latin festīnātus (Wiktionary)
  2. 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.”

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  • “Nuntiate autem patri meo omnem gloriam meam in Aegypto, et omnia quae vidistis: et festinate, et descendere facite patrem meum huc.”

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2

  • “Advise the duke, where you are going, to a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.”

    Act III. Scene VII. King Lear

  • “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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  • “However, if you are observed to enter insolvency but hit not finished so yet, then gratify verify your instance and don't festinate the impact - it is more primary to secure that every your bases are awninged kinda than to attain a nonachievement that haw outlay you later.”

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  • “Costa Rica is a slower tranquil surround was grouping hit instance to speech and there is no festinate hour.”

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  • “a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the like.”

    King Lear

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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

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